Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
LAVE
wash, lave
(verb) cleanse (one’s body) with soap and water
lave, lap, wash
(verb) wash or flow against; “the waves laved the shore”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Verb
lave (third-person singular simple present laves, present participle laving, simple past and past participle laved)
(transitive, obsolete) To pour or throw out, as water; lade out; bail; bail out.
(transitive) To draw, as water; drink in.
(transitive) To give bountifully; lavish.
(intransitive) To run down or gutter, as a candle.
(intransitive, dialectal) To hang or flap down.
(ambitransitive, literary or poetic) To wash.
Etymology 2
Noun
lave (uncountable)
(archaic or dialectal) The remainder, rest; that which is left, remnant; others.
(dialectal) A crowd
Synonyms
• (that which is left): remnant, residue; See also remainder
Anagrams
• Leva, Vale, Veal, Vela, avel, eval, leva, vale, veal, vela
Source: Wiktionary
Lave, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Laved; p. pr. & vb. n. Laving.] Etym: [F. laver, L. lavare, akin to luere to wash, Gr. Ablution, Deluge, Lavender, Lava, Lotion.]
Definition: To wash; to bathe; as, to lave a bruise. His feet the foremost breakers lave. Byron.
Lave, v. i.
Definition: To bathe; to wash one's self. In her chaste current oft the goddess laves. Pope.
Lave, v. t. Etym: [OE. laven. See Lavish.]
Definition: To lade, dip, or pour out. [Obs.] Dryden.
Lave, n. Etym: [AS. laf the remainder, what is left. Leave.]
Definition: The remainder; others. [Scot.] Bp. Hall.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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