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.
DECUMAN
Etymology
Adjective
decuman (not comparable)
(obsolete) large; chief; applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in sequence.
(historical) Connected with the principal gate of an Ancient Roman camp, near which the tenth cohort of the legion was stationed.
Noun
decuman (plural decumans)
(obsolete) An extraordinarily large billow.
Anagrams
• mancude
Source: Wiktionary
Dec"u*man, a. Etym: [L. decumanus of the tenth, and by metonymy, large, fr. decem ten.]
Definition: Large; chief; -- applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in order. [R.] Also used substantively. "Such decuman billows." Gauden. "The baffled decuman." Lowell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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