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.
GIRDLES
Noun
girdles
plural of girdle
Verb
girdles
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of girdle
Anagrams
• Gilders, gilders, gliders, gridles, grisled, regilds, ridgels
Source: Wiktionary
GIRDLE
Gir"dle, n.
Definition: A griddle. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
Gir"dle, n. Etym: [OE. gurdel, girdel, AS. gyrdel, fr. gyrdan; akin to D. gordel, G. gürtel, Icel. gyr. See Gird, v. t., to encircle, and cf. Girth, n.]
1. That which girds, encircles, or incloses; a circumference; a belt; esp., a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist; a cestus. Within the girdle of these walls. Shak. Their breasts girded with golden girdles. Rev. xv. 6.
2. The zodiac; also, the equator. [Poetic] Bacon. From the world's girdle to the frozen pole. Cowper. That gems the starry girdle of the year. Campbell.
3. (Jewelry)
Definition: The line ofgreatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting. See Illust. of Brilliant. Knight.
4. (Mining)
Definition: A thin bed or stratum of stone. Raymond.
5. (Zoöl.)
Definition: The clitellus of an earthworm. Girdle bone (Anat.), the sphenethmoid. See under Sphenethmoid.
– Girdle wheel, a spinning wheel.
– Sea girdle (Zoöl.), a ctenophore. See Venus's girdle, under Venus.
– Shoulder, Pectoral, and Pelvic, girdle. (Anat.) See under Pectoral, and Pelvic.
– To have under the girdle, to have bound to one, that is, in subjection.
Gir"dle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Girdled; p. pr. & vb. n. Girdling.]
1. To bind with a belt or sash; to gird. Shak.
2. To inclose; to environ; to shut in. Those sleeping stones, That as a waist doth girdle you about. Shak.
3. To make a cut or gnaw a groove around (a tree, etc.) through the bark and alburnum, thus killing it. [U. S.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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