driftwood
(noun) wood that is floating or that has been washed ashore
Source: WordNet® 3.1
driftwood (usually uncountable, plural driftwoods)
A floating piece, or pieces, of wood that drifts with the current.
Such a piece of wood that has been cast ashore.
Source: Wiktionary
Drift"wood`, n.
1. Wood drifted or floated by water.
2. Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water. The current of humanity, with its heavy proportion of very useless driftwood. New Your Times.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
6 April 2025
(noun) a gymnastic exercise performed starting from a position with the legs over the upper body and moving to an erect position by arching the back and swinging the legs out and down while forcing the chest upright
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
