In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
ELDING
Etymology
Noun
elding (uncountable)
(chiefly, dialectal) firewood; fuel
rubbish
Anagrams
• Dingle, dingle, engild, gilden, ingled
Source: Wiktionary
El"ding, n. Etym: [Icel. elding, fr. elda to kindle, eldr fire; akin to AS. æld fire, ælan to burn.]
Definition: Fuel. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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