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.
FRAISE
fraise
(noun) sloping or horizontal rampart of pointed stakes
fraise
(noun) a ruff for the neck worn in the 16th century
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Verb
fraise (third-person singular simple present fraises, present participle fraising, simple past and past participle fraised)
(transitive, archaic) To put in danger, in terror, or at risk.
Etymology 2
Noun
fraise (plural fraises)
A type of palisade placed for defence around a berm; a defence consisting of pointed stakes driven into the ramparts in a horizontal or inclined position.
(historical) A ruff worn (especially by women) in the 16th century.
(historical) An embroidered scarf with its ends crossed over the chest and pinned, worn (especially by women) in the 19th century.
A fluted reamer for enlarging holes in stone; a small milling cutter.
A tool for cutting the teeth of a timepiece's wheel to correct inaccuracies.
Verb
fraise (third-person singular simple present fraises, present participle fraising, simple past and past participle fraised)
(military) To protect, as a line of troops, against an onset of cavalry, by opposing bayonets raised obliquely forward.
Etymology 3
Noun
fraise (plural fraises)
A large thick pancake with slices of bacon in it.
Etymology 4
Noun
fraise (plural fraises)
(heraldry) A stylized strawberry with leaves.
Etymology 5
Noun
fraise
(UK, dialect, dated) Commotion.
Anagrams
• Faries, Ferias, faires, ferias, rafies, sea fir, sefira
Source: Wiktionary
Fraise, n. Etym: [See Froise.]
Definition: A large and thick pancake, with slices of bacon in it. [Obs.] Johnson.
Fraise, n. Etym: [F. fraise, orig., a ruff, cf. F. frise frieze, E. frieze a coarse stuff.]
1. (Fort.)
Definition: A defense consisting of pointed stakes driven into the ramparts in a horizontal or inclined position.
2. (Mech.)
Definition: A fluted reamer for enlarging holes in stone; a small milling cutter.
Fraise, v. t. (Mil.)
Definition: To protect, as a line of troops, against an onset of cavalry, by opposing bayonets raised obliquely forward. Wilhelm.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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