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.
DISEMBOWEL
disembowel, eviscerate, draw
(verb) remove the entrails of; “draw a chicken”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
disembowel (third-person singular simple present disembowels, present participle disembowelling or disemboweling, simple past and past participle disembowelled or disemboweled)
(transitive) To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate.
(transitive) To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider.
Source: Wiktionary
Dis`em*bow"el, v. t. Etym: [See Embowel.]
1. To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate. Soon after their death, they are disemboweled. Cook. Roaring floods and cataracts that sweep From disemboweled earth the virgin gold. Thomson.
2. To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider. [R.] "Her disemboweled web." J. Philips.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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