An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
GULCH
gulch, flume
(noun) a narrow gorge with a stream running through it
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
gulch (third-person singular simple present gulches, present participle gulching, simple past and past participle gulched)
(obsolete) To swallow greedily; to gulp down.
(obsolete) To fall heavily.
Noun
gulch (plural gulches)
A ravine-like or deep V-shaped valley, often eroded by flash floods; shallower than a canyon and deeper than a gully.
(obsolete) An act of gulching or gulping.
(obsolete) A glutton.
Source: Wiktionary
Gulch, n.
1. Act of gulching or gulping. [Obs.]
2. A glutton. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
3. A ravine, or part of the deep bed of a torrent when dry; a gully.
Gulch, v. t. Etym: [OE. gulchen; cf. dial. Sw. gölka to gulch, D. gulzig greedy, or E. gulp.]
Definition: To swallow greedily; to gulp down. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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