Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
cottered
simple past tense and past participle of cotter
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Source: Wiktionary
Cot"ter, Cot"tar (kt"tr), n. Etym: [LL. cotarius, cottarius, coterius. See Cot.]
Definition: A cottager; a cottier. Burns. Through Sandwich Notch the West Wind sang Good morrow to the cotter. Whittier.
Cot"ter (kt"tr), n.
1. A piece of wood or metal, commonly wedge-shaped, used for fastening together parts of a machine or structure. It is driven into an opening through one or all of the parts.
Note: [See Illust.] In the United States a cotter is commonly called a key.
2. A toggle.
Cot"ter, v. t.
Definition: To fasten with a cotter.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 April 2024
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.