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.
FILCH
pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift
(verb) make off with belongings of others
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
filch (third-person singular simple present filches, present participle filching, simple past and past participle filched)
(transitive) To illegally take possession of (especially items of low value); to pilfer, to steal.
Synonyms
• flog (Australia, slang)
• half-inch (Cockney rhyming slang)
• jack (slang)
• knock off (slang)
• lift
• nick
• pilfer
• pinch
• rob
• steal
• thieve
• See also steal
Noun
filch (plural filches)
Something which has been filched or stolen.
An act of filching; larceny, theft.
(obsolete) A person who filches; a filcher, a pilferer, a thief.
(obsolete) A hooked stick used to filch objects.
Synonyms
• (act of filching): larceny, theft
• (person who filches): filcher, pilferer, thief
Source: Wiktionary
Filch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Filched; p. pr. & vb. n. Filching.] Etym: [Cf. AS. feol to stick to, OHG. felhan, felahan, to hide, Icel. fela, Goth. filhan to hide, bury, Prov. E. feal to hide slyly, OE. felen.]
Definition: To steal or take privily (commonly, that which is of little value); to pilfer. Fain would they filch that little food away. Dryden. But he that filches from me my good name, Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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