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.
GLADIUS
Etymology
Noun
gladius (plural gladiuses or gladii)
(historical) A Roman sword roughly two feet long.
(zoology) A pen, a hard internal bodypart of certain cephalopods, made of chitin-like material.
Source: Wiktionary
Gla"di*us, n.; pl. Gladii. Etym: [L., a sword.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: The internal shell, or pen, of cephalopods like the squids.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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