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.
DENTING
Verb
denting
present participle of dent
Anagrams
• 'tending, tending
Source: Wiktionary
DENT
Dent, n. Etym: [A variant of Dint.]
1. A stroke; a blow. [Obs.] "That dent of thunder." Chaucer.
2. A slight depression, or small notch or hollow, made by a blow or by pressure; an indentation. A blow that would have made a dent in a pound of butter. De Quincey.
Dent, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dented; p. pr. & vb. n. Denting.]
Definition: To make a dent upon; to indent. The houses dented with bullets. Macaulay.
Dent, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. dens, dentis, tooth. See Tooth.] (Mach.)
Definition: A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc. Knight.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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