Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
FLAIL
flail
(noun) an implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end; used in manual threshing
thrash, thresh, lam, flail
(verb) give a thrashing to; beat hard
flail, thresh
(verb) move like a flail; thresh about; “Her arms were flailing”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
flail (plural flails)
A tool used for threshing, consisting of a long handle with a shorter stick attached with a short piece of chain, thong or similar material.
A weapon which has the (usually spherical) striking part attached to the handle with a flexible joint such as a chain.
Synonyms
• threshel, thrashel
Coordinate terms
• (weapon): nunchaku
Verb
flail (third-person singular simple present flails, present participle flailing, simple past and past participle flailed)
(transitive) To beat using a flail or similar implement.
(transitive) To wave or swing vigorously
Synonym: thrash
(transitive) To thresh.
(intransitive) To move like a flail.
Source: Wiktionary
Flail, n. Etym: [L. flagellum whip, scourge, in LL., a threshing flail: cf. OF. flael, flaiel, F. fléau. See Flagellum.]
1. An instrument for threshing or beating grain from the ear by hand, consisting of a wooden staff or handle, at the end of which a stouter and shorter pole or club, called a swipe, is so hung as to swing freely. His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn. Milton.
2. An ancient military weapon, like the common flail, often having the striking part armed with rows of spikes, or loaded. Fairholt. No citizen thought himself safe unless he carried under his coat a small flail, loaded with lead, to brain the Popish assassins. Macaulay.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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