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.
HERISSON
Etymology
Noun
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
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