Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
COCKBILLED
Verb
cockbilled
simple past tense and past participle of cockbill
Source: Wiktionary
COCKBILL
Cock"bill, v. t. Etym: [See Cock to set erect.] (Naut.)
Definition: To tilt up one end of so as to make almost vertical; as, to cockbill the yards as a sign of mourning. To cockbill the anchor, to suspend it from the cathead preparatory to letting it go. See Acockbill.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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