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.
CORRASION
abrasion, attrition, corrasion, detrition
(noun) erosion by friction
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
corrasion (usually uncountable, plural corrasions)
(obsolete) The diminution of wealth, etc, such as through unanticipated expenditure.
The wearing away of surface material.
(geology) Corrading (erosion by abrasion) caused by such as: wind-blown or water-borne sand, stream-borne or glacier-borne stones, or collisions between stones under the influence of seaside breakers.
Source: Wiktionary
Cor*ra"sion (kr-r"zhn), n. Etym: [See Corrade.] (Geol.)
Definition: The erosion of the bed of a stream by running water, principally by attrition of the detritus carried along by the stream, but also by the solvent action of the water.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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