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.
DIVER
loon, diver
(noun) large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the northern hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; related to the grebes
diver, plunger
(noun) someone who dives (into water)
diver, frogman, underwater diver
(noun) someone who works underwater
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
diver (plural divers)
Someone who dives, especially as a sport.
Synonym: urinator (obsolete)
Someone who works underwater; a frogman.
(UK, Ireland) The loon (bird).
The New Zealand sand diver.
The long-finned sand diver.
(UK, London, dated) A passenger carrying vehicle using an underground route; specially, a diver tram, one using the former Kingsway tramway subway (1906-1952).
(slang, obsolete) A pickpocket.
(sports) A competitor in certain sports who is known to regularly imitate being fouled, with the purpose of getting his/her opponent penalised.
Anagrams
• Verdi, deriv., drive, rived, vired
Source: Wiktionary
Div"er, n.
1. One who, or that which, dives. Divers and fishers for pearls. Woodward.
2. Fig.: One who goes deeply into a subject, study, or business. "A diver into causes." Sir H. Wotton.
3. (Zoöl.)
Definition: Any bird of certain genera, as Urinator (formerly Colymbus), or the allied genus Colymbus, or Podiceps, remarkable for their agility in diving.
Note: The northern diver (Urinator imber) is the loon; the black diver or velvet scoter (Oidemia fusca) is a sea duck. See Loon, and Scoter.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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