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.
LATHE
lathe
(noun) machine tool for shaping metal or wood; the workpiece turns about a horizontal axis against a fixed tool
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Verb
lathe (third-person singular simple present lathes, present participle lathing, simple past and past participle lathed)
(transitive, UK dialectal) To invite; bid; ask.
Etymology 2
Noun
lathe (plural lathes)
(obsolete) An administrative division of the county of Kent, in England, from the Anglo-Saxon period until it fell entirely out of use in the early twentieth century.
Etymology 3
Noun
lathe (plural lathes)
A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.
The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft; a lay, or batten.
(obsolete) A granary; a barn.
Verb
lathe (third-person singular simple present lathes, present participle lathing, simple past and past participle lathed)
To shape with a lathe.
(computer graphics) To produce a three-dimensional model by rotating a set of points around a fixed axis.
Anagrams
• Leath, athel, ethal, hatel
Source: Wiktionary
Lathe, n. Etym: [AS.læedh. Of. uncertain origin.]
Definition: Formerly, a part or division of a county among the Anglo- Saxons. At present it consists of four or five hundreds, and is confined to the county of Kent. [Written also lath.] Brande & C.
Lathe, n. Etym: [OE. lathe a granary; akin to G. lade a chest, Icel. hlaedha a storehouse, barn; but cf. also Icel. löedh a smith's lathe. Senses 2 and 3 are perh. of the same origin as lathe a granary, the original meaning being, a frame to hold something. If so, the word is from an older form of E. lade to load. See Lade to load.]
1. A granary; a barn. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. (Mach.)
Definition: A machine for turning, that is, for shaping articles of wood, metal, or other material, by causing them to revolve while acted upon by a cutting tool.
3. The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft; -- called also lay and batten. Blanchard lathe, a lathe for turning irregular forms after a given pattern, as lasts, gunstocks, and the like.
– Drill lathe, or Speed lathe, a small lathe which, from its high speed, is adapted for drilling; a hand lathe.
– Engine lathe, a turning lathe in which the cutting tool has an automatic feed; -- used chiefly for turning and boring metals, cutting screws, etc.
– Foot lathe, a lathe which is driven by a treadle worked by the foot.
– Geometric lathe. See under Geometric -- Hand lathe, a lathe operated by hand; a power turning lathe without an automatic feed for the tool.
– Slide lathe, an engine lathe.
– Throw lathe, a small lathe worked by one hand, while the cutting tool is held in the other.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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