The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.
CHIMES
Noun
chimes
plural of chime
Verb
chimes
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chime
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Source: Wiktionary
CHIME
Chime, n. Etym: [See Chimb.]
Definition: See Chine, n., 3.
Chime, n. Etym: [OE. chimbe, prop., cymbal, OF. cymbe, cymble, in a dialectic form, chymble, F. cymbale, L. cymbalum, fr. Gr. Cymbal.]
1. The harmonious sound of bells, or of musical instruments. Instruments that made melodius chime. Milton.
2. A set of bells musically tuned to each other; specif., in the pl., the music performed on such a set of bells by hand, or produced by mechanism to accompany the striking of the hours or their divisions. We have heard the chimes at midnight. Shak.
3. Pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound. "Chimes of verse." Cowley.
Chime, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Chimed; p. pr. & vb. n. Chiming.] Etym: [See Chime, n.]
1. To sound in harmonious accord, as bells.
2. To be in harmony; to agree; to sut; to harmonize; to correspond; to fall in with. Everything chimed in with such a humor. W. irving.
3. To join in a conversation; to express assent; -- followed by in or in with. [Colloq.]
4. To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming. Cowley
Chime, v. i.
1. To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony. And chime their sounding hammers. Dryden.
2. To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically. Chime his childish verse. Byron.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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