The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.
ELANCE
Etymology
Verb
elance (third-person singular simple present elances, present participle elancing, simple past and past participle elanced)
(transitive, archaic) To throw like a lance; to hurl.
Anagrams
• Celena, canelé, cleane, enlace
Source: Wiktionary
E*lance", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Elanced; p. pr. & vb. n. Elancing.] Etym: [F. élancer, OF. eslancier; pref. es- (L. ex) + F. lancer to dart, throw, fr. lance.]
Definition: To throw as a lance; to hurl; to dart. [R.] While thy unerring hand elanced . . . a dart. Prior.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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