Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
LOPING
Verb
loping
present participle of lope
Anagrams
• Poling, poling
Source: Wiktionary
LOPE
Lope, imp.
Definition: of Leap. [Obs.] And, laughing, lope into a tree. Spenser.
Lope, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Loped; p. pr. & vb. n. Loping.] Etym: [See Leap.]
1. To leap; to dance. [Prov. Eng.] "He that lopes on the ropes." Middleton.
2. To move with a lope, as a horse. [U.S.]
Lope, n.
1. A leap; a long step. [Prov. Eng.]
2. An easy gait, consisting of long running strides or leaps. [U.S.] The mustang goes rollicking ahead, with the eternal lope, . . . a mixture of two or three gaits, as easy as the motions of a crade. T. B. Thorpe.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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