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.
EQUIPAGE
carriage, equipage, rig
(noun) a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses
materiel, equipage
(noun) equipment and supplies of a military force
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
equipage (countable and uncountable, plural equipages)
(uncountable) Equipment or supplies, especially military ones.
(obsolete) Military dress; uniform, armour etc.
A type of horse-drawn carriage.
The carriage together with attendants; a retinue.
Verb
equipage (third-person singular simple present equipages, present participle equipaging, simple past and past participle equipaged)
(transitive, obsolete) To furnish with an equipage.
Source: Wiktionary
Eq"ui*page (; 48), n. Etym: [F. équipage, fr. équiper. See Equip.]
1. Furniture or outfit, whether useful or ornamental; especially, the furniture and supplies of a vessel, fitting her for a voyage or for warlike purposes, or the furniture and necessaries of an army, a body of troops, or a single soldier, including whatever is necessary for efficient service; equipments; accouterments; habiliments; attire. Did their exercises on horseback with noble equipage. Evelyn. First strip off all her equipage of Pride. Pope.
2. Retinue; train; suite. Swift.
3. A carriage of state or of pleasure with all that accompanies it, as horses, liveried servants, etc., a showy turn-out. The rumbling equipages of fashion . . . were unknown in the settlement of New Amsterdam. W. Irving.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(noun) (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards
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