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.
CRIBS
Noun
cribs
plural of crib
Verb
cribs
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of crib
Anagrams
• BRICS, BRICs, CBIRS
Source: Wiktionary
CRIB
Crib (krb), n. Etym: [AS. crybb; akin to OS. kribbja, D. krib, kribbe, Dan. krybbe, G. krippe, and perh. to MHG. krebe basket, G, korb, and E. rip a sort of wicker basket.]
1. A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals. The steer lion at one crib shall meet. Pope.
2. A stall for oxen or other cattle. Where no oxen are, the crib is clean. Prov. xiv. 4.
3. A small inclosed bedstead or cot for a child.
4. A box or bin, or similar wooden structure, for storing grain, salt, etc.; as, a crib for corn or oats.
5. A hovel; a hut; a cottage. Why rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, . . . Than in the perfumed chambers of the great Shak.
6. (Mining)
Definition: A structure or frame of timber for a foundation, or for supporting a roof, or for lining a shaft.
7. A structure of logs to be anchored with stones; -- used for docks, pier, dams, etc.
8. A small raft of timber. [Canada]
9. A small theft; anything purloined;; a plagiaris [Colloq.] The Latin version technically called a crib. Ld. Lytton. Occasional perusal of the Pagan writers, assisted by a crib. Wilkie Collins.
10. A miner's luncheon. [Cant] Raymond.
11. (Card Playing)
Definition: The discarded cards which the dealer can use in scoring points in cribbage.
Crib, v. t. [imp. & p.p. Cribbed (krbd); p.pr. & vb. n. Cribbing.]
1. To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp. If only the vital energy be not cribbed or cramped. I. Taylor. Now I am cabin'd, cribbed, confined. Shak.
2. To pilfer or purloin; hence, to steal from an author; to appropriate; to plagiarize; as, to crib a line from Milton. [Colloq.] Child, being fond of toys, cribbed the necklace. Dickens.
Crib, v. i.
1. To crowd together, or to be confined, as in a crib or in narrow accommodations. [R.] Who sought to make . . . bishops to crib in a Presbyterian trundle bed. Gauden.
2. To make notes for dishonest use in recitation or examination. [College Cant]
3. To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind; -- said of a horse.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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