In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
GRUELLING
arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome
(adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; “worked their arduous way up the mining valley”; “a grueling campaign”; “hard labor”; “heavy work”; “heavy going”; “spent many laborious hours on the project”; “set a punishing pace”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
gruelling (comparative more gruelling, superlative most gruelling)
So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
Synonyms
• (so difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted): backbreaking, exhausting
Noun
gruelling (plural gruellings)
(racing) A race in which the animal being raced finishes in a state of physical exhaustion.
A gruelling ordeal.
Source: Wiktionary
GRUEL
Gru"el, n. Etym: [OF. gruel, F. gruau; of German origin; cf. OHG. gruzzi groats, G. grĂĽtze, As. grut. See Grout.]
Definition: A light, liquid food, made by boiling meal of maize, oatmeal, or fiour in water or milk; thin porridge.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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