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.
LOPPINGS
Noun
loppings
plural of lopping
Anagrams
• slopping
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LOPPING
Lop"ping, n.
Definition: A cutting off, as of branches; that which is cut off; leavings. The loppings made from that stock whilst it stood. Burke.
LOP
Lop, n. Etym: [AS. loppe.]
Definition: A flea.[Obs.] Cleveland.
Lop, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lopped; p. pr. & vb. n. Lopping.] Etym: [Prov. G. luppen, lubben,to cut, geld, or OD. luppen, D. lubben.]
1. To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything; to shoas, to lop a tree or its branches. "With branches lopped, in wood or mountain felled." Milton. Expunge the whole, or lop the excrescent parts. Pope.
2. To cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop bushes in a hedge.
Lop, n.
Definition: That which is lopped from anything, as branches from a tree. Shak. Mortimer.
Lop, v. i.
Definition: To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
Lop, v. t.
Definition: To let hang down; as, to lop the head.
Lop, a.
Definition: Hanging down; as, lop ears; -- used also in compound adjectives; as, lopeared; lopsided.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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