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.
CRAKING
Verb
craking
present participle of crake
Anagrams
• arcking, carking, racking
Source: Wiktionary
CRAKE
Crake (krk), v. t. & i. Etym: [See Crack.]
1. To cry out harshly and loudly, like the bird called crake.
2. To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully. [Obs.] Each man may crake of that which was his own. Mir. for Mag.
Crake, n.
Definition: A boast. See Crack, n. [Obs.] Spenser.
Crake, n. Etym: [Cf. Icel. kr crow, kr raven, Sw. kr, Dan. krage; perh. of imitative origin. Cf. Crow.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: Any species or rail of the genera Crex and Porzana; -- so called from its singular cry. See Corncrake.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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