In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
EARCOCKLE
Ear"coc`kle, n. (Bot.)
Definition: A disease in wheat, in which the blackened and contracted grain, or ear, is filled with minute worms.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(noun) the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)
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