In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
MACHMETER
machmeter
(noun) speedometer for measuring the speed of an aircraft relative to the speed of sound
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
Machmeter (plural Machmeters)
An instrument that measures the speed of an aircraft relative to that of sound and displays it in Mach numbers
Source: Wiktionary
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