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.
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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SUSPENDED
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