There are more than 50 countries that export coffee. They are near the equator, where the climate is conducive to producing coffee beans.
CLINKERED
Verb
clinkered
simple past tense and past participle of clinker
Source: Wiktionary
CLINKER
Clink"er, n. Etym: [From clink; cf. D. clinker a brick which is so hard that it makes a sonorous sound, from clinken to clink. Cf. Clinkstone.]
1. A mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln.
2. Scoria or vitrified incombustible matter, formed in a grate or furnace where anthracite coal in used; vitrified or burnt matter ejected from a volcano; slag.
3. A scale of oxide of iron, formed in forging.
4. A kind of brick. See Dutch klinker, under Dutch.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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