In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
GARBOARD
garboard, garboard plank, garboard strake
(noun) the first wale laid next to the keel of a wooden ship
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
garboard (plural garboards)
(nautical) The board on a boat which attaches to the keel running fore and aft along the bottom.
Source: Wiktionary
Gar"board, n. (Naut.)
Definition: One of the planks next the keel on the outside, which form a garboard strake. Garboard strake or streak, the first range or strake of planks laid on a ship's bottom next the keel. Totten.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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