The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.
COUNTERMURE
Etymology
Noun
countermure (plural countermures)
A wall raised behind another, to supply its place when that is breached or destroyed.
Verb
countermure (third-person singular simple present countermures, present participle countermuring, simple past and past participle countermured)
(transitive) To fortify with a wall behind another wall.
Source: Wiktionary
Coun"ter*mure` (-mr`), n. Etym: [Counter- + mure: cf. F. contremur.] (Fort.)
Definition: A wall raised behind another, to supply its place when breached or destroyed. [R.] Cf. Contramure. Knolles.
Coun`ter*mure" (koun`tr-mr"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Countermured (- mrd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Countermuring.] Etym: [Cf. F. contremurer.]
Definition: To fortify with a wall behind another wall. [R.] Kyd.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(verb) conform one’s action or practice to; “keep appointments”; “she never keeps her promises”; “We kept to the original conditions of the contract”
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