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.
FLEECE
wool, fleece
(noun) outer coat of especially sheep and yaks
fleece
(noun) a soft bulky fabric with deep pile; used chiefly for clothing
sheepskin, fleece
(noun) tanned skin of a sheep with the fleece left on; used for clothing
fleece
(noun) the wool of a sheep or similar animal
fleece, shear
(verb) shear the wool from; “shear sheep”
overcharge, soak, surcharge, gazump, fleece, plume, pluck, rob, hook
(verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
fleece (countable and uncountable, plural fleeces)
(uncountable) Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal
(uncountable) Insulating skin with the wool attached
(countable) A textile similar to velvet, but with a longer pile that gives it a softness and a higher sheen.
(countable) An insulating wooly jacket
(roofing) Mat or felts composed of fibers, sometimes used as a membrane backer.
Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
Verb
fleece (third-person singular simple present fleeces, present participle fleecing, simple past and past participle fleeced)
(transitive) To con or trick (someone) out of money.
(transitive) To shear the fleece from (a sheep or other animal).
(transitive) To cover with, or as if with, wool.
Source: Wiktionary
Fleece, n. Etym: [OE. flees, AS. fleós; akin to D. flies, vlies .]
1. The entire coat of wood that covers a sheep or other similar animal; also, the quantity shorn from a sheep, or animal, at one time. Who shore me Like a tame wether, all my precious fleece. Milton.
2. Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
3. (Manuf.)
Definition: The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine. Fleece wool, wool shorn from the sheep.
– Golden fleece. See under Golden.
Fleece, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fleeced; p. pr. & vb. n. Fleecing.]
1. To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool.
2. To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or frand; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions. Whilst pope and prince shared the wool betwixt them, the people were finely fleeced. Fuller.
3. To spread over as with wool. [R.] Thomson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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