An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
COBBLED
Verb
cobbled
simple past tense and past participle of cobble
Adjective
cobbled
(of a road surface) Laid with cobbles.
Crudely or roughly assembled; put together in an improvised way, (as in "cobbled together")
Source: Wiktionary
COBBLE
Cob"ble, n.
Definition: A fishing boat. See Coble.
Cob"ble, n. Etym: [From Cob a lump. See Cob, n., 9, and cf. Copple, Copplestone.]
1. A cobblestone. "Their slings held cobbles round." Fairfax.
2. pl.
Definition: Cob coal. See under Cob.
Cob"ble, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cobbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Cobbling.] Etym: [OF. cobler, copler, to join or knit together, couple, F. coupler, L. copulare to couple, join. Cf. Couple, n. & v. t.]
1. To make or mend coarsely; to patch; to botch; as, to cobble shoes. Shak. "A cobbled saddle." Thackeray.
2. To make clumsily. "Cobbled rhymes." Dryden.
3. To pave with cobblestones.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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