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.
DRAKES
Noun
drakes
plural of drake
Anagrams
• Radkes, askerd, dakers, sarked
Source: Wiktionary
DRAKE
Drake, n. Etym: [Akin to LG. drake, OHG. antrache, anetrecho, G. enterich, Icel. andriki, Dan. andrik, OSw. andrak, andrage, masc., and fr. AS. ened, fem., duck; akin to D. eend, G. ente, Icel. önd, Dan. and, Sw. and, Lith. antis, L. anas, Gr. ati a water fowl. rich. Cf. Gulaund.]
1. The male of the duck kind.
2. Etym: [Cf. Dragon fly, under Dragon.]
Definition: The drake fly. The drake will mount steeple height into the air. Walton. Drake fly, a kind of fly, sometimes used in angling. The dark drake fly, good in August. Walton.
Drake, n. Etym: [AS. draca dragon, L. draco. See Dragon.]
1. A dragon. [Obs.] Beowulf resolves to kill the drake. J. A. Harrison (Beowulf).
2. A small piece of artillery. [Obs.] Two or three shots, made at them by a couple of drakes, made them stagger. Clarendon.
Drake, n. Etym: [Cf. F. dravik, W. drewg, darnel, cockle, etc.]
Definition: Wild oats, brome grass, or darnel grass; -- called also drawk, dravick, and drank. [Prov. Eng.] Dr. Prior.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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