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.
HAMMOCK
hammock, sack
(noun) a hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swings easily
knoll, mound, hillock, hummock, hammock
(noun) a small natural hill
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
hammock (plural hammocks)
A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends.
(US, archaic, outside, dialects) A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines.
Verb
hammock (third-person singular simple present hammocks, present participle hammocking, simple past and past participle hammocked)
(intransitive) To lie in a hammock.
(transitive, of a cloth) To hang in a way that resembles a hammock.
(transitive) To make something be wrapped tight, like in a hammock.
Proper noun
Hammock (plural Hammocks)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Hammock is the 4877th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 7222 individuals. Hammock is most common among White (81.79%) and Black/African American (12.66%) individuals.
Source: Wiktionary
Ham"mock, n. Etym: [A word of Indian origin: cf. Sp. hamaca. Columbus, in the Narrative of his first voyage, says: "A great many Indians in canoes came to the ship to-day for the purpose of bartering their cotton, and hamacas, or nets, in which they sleep."]
1. A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends.
2. A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines. Used also adjectively; as, hammock land. [Southern U. S.] Bartlett. Hammock nettings (Naut.), formerly, nets for stowing hammocks; now, more often, wooden boxes or a trough on the rail, used for that purpose.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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