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.
IMPONE
Etymology
Verb
impone (third-person singular simple present impones, present participle imponing, simple past and past participle imponed)
(obsolete, transitive) To stake; to wager; to pledge.
Source: Wiktionary
Im*pone", v. t. Etym: [L. imponere, impositum, to place upon; pref. im- in + ponere to place. See Position.]
Definition: To stake; to wager; to pledge. [Obs.] Against the which he has imponed, as I take it, six French rapiers and poniards. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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