An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
DISMAST
Etymology
Verb
dismast (third-person singular simple present dismasts, present participle dismasting, simple past and past participle dismasted)
(transitive, nautical) to break off the mast (of a ship), especially by gunfire.
Source: Wiktionary
Dis*mast", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dismasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Dismasting.] Etym: [Pref. dis- + mast: cf. F. démâter.]
Definition: To deprive of a mast of masts; to break and carry away the masts from; as, a storm dismasted the ship.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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