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.
HAWSED
Verb
hawsed
simple past tense and past participle of hawse
Anagrams
• E.D. Wash., washed
Source: Wiktionary
HAWSE
Hawse, n. Etym: [Orig. a hawse hole, or hole in the ship; cf. Icel. hals, hals, neck, part of the bows of a ship, AS. heals neck. See Collar, and cf. Halse to embrace.]
1. A hawse hole. Harris.
2. (Naut.) (a) The situation of the cables when a vessel is moored with two anchors, one on the starboard, the other on the port bow. (b) The distance ahead to which the cables usually extend; as, the ship has a clear or open hawse, or a foul hawse; to anchor in our hawse, or athwart hawse. (c) That part of a vessel's bow in which are the hawse holes for the cables. Athwart hawse. See under Athwart.
– Foul hawse, a hawse in which the cables cross each other, or are twisted together.
– Hawse block, a block used to stop up a hawse hole at sea; -- called also hawse plug.
– Hawse hole, a hole in the bow of a ship, through which a cable passes.
– Hawse piece, one of the foremost timbers of a ship, through which the hawse hole is cut.
– Hawse plug. Same as Hawse block (above).
– To come in at the hawse holes, to enter the naval service at the lowest grade. [Cant] -- To freshen the hawse, to veer out a little more cable and bring the chafe and strain on another part.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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