Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
GUNWALE
gunwale, gunnel, gun rest
(noun) wale at the top of the side of boat; topmost planking of a wooden vessel
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
gunwale (plural gunwales)
(nautical) The top edge of the hull of a nautical vessel, where it meets the deck.
Source: Wiktionary
Gun"wale, n. Etym: [Gun + wale. So named because the upper guns were pointed from it.] (Naut.)
Definition: The upper edge of a vessel's or boat's side; the uppermost wale of a ship (not including the bulwarks); or that piece of timber which reaches on either side from the quarter-deck to the forecastle, being the uppermost bend, which finishes the upper works of the hull. [Written also gunnel.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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