Coffee is the second largest traded commodity in the world, next to crude oil. It’s also one of the oldest commodities, with over 2.25 billion cups of coffee consumed worldwide daily.
EDDIES
Noun
eddies
plural of eddy
Verb
eddies
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of eddy
Anagrams
• didees
Noun
Eddies
plural of Eddie
Anagrams
• didees
Source: Wiktionary
EDDY
Ed"dy, n.; pl. Eddies. Etym: [Prob. fr. Icel. i; cf. Icel. pref. i back, AS. ed-, OS. idug-, OHG. ita-; Goth. id-.]
1. A current of air or water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main current.
2. A current of water or air moving in a circular direction; a whirlpool. And smiling eddies dimpled on the main. Dryden. Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play. Addison.
Note: Used also adjectively; as, eddy winds. Dryden.
Ed"dy, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Eddied; p. pr. & vb. n. Eddying.]
Definition: To move as an eddy, or as in an eddy; to move in a circle. Eddying round and round they sink. Wordsworth.
Ed"dy, v. t.
Definition: To collect as into an eddy. [R.] The circling mountains eddy in From the bare wild the dissipated storm. Thomson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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