Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
COLLECTORS
Noun
collectors
plural of collector
Source: Wiktionary
COLLECTOR
Col*lect"or, n. Etym: [LL. collector one who collects: cf. F. collecteur.]
1. One who collects things which are separate; esp., one who makes a business or practice of collecting works of art, objects in natural history, etc.; as, a collector of coins. I digress into Soho to explore a bookstall. Methinks I have been thirty years a collector. Lamb.
2. A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book. Volumes without the collector's own reflections. Addison.
3. (Com.)
Definition: An officer appointed and commissioned to collect and receive customs, duties, taxes, or toll. A great part of this is now embezzled . . . by collectors, and other officers. Sir W. Temple.
4. One authorized to collect debts.
5. A bachelor of arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent. Todd.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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