herisson (plural herissons)
A beam or bar armed with iron spikes, and turning on a pivot, used to block up a passage.
(heraldiccharge) A hedgehog.
Source: Wiktionary
Her"is*son, n. Etym: [F. hérisson, prop., hedgehog.] (fort.)
Definition: A beam or bar armed with iron spikes, and turning on a pivot; - - used to block up a passage.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
17 May 2025
(noun) sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
