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.
PACKETED
Verb
packeted
simple past tense and past participle of packet
Anagrams
• tape deck, tapedeck
Source: Wiktionary
PACKET
Pack"et, n. Etym: [F. paquet, dim. fr. LL. paccus, from the same source as E. pack. See Pack.]
1. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters. Shak.
2. Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat. Packet boat, ship, or vessel. See Packet, n., 2.
– Packet day, the day for mailing letters to go by packet; or the sailing day.
– Packet note or post. See under Paper.
Pack"et, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Packeted; p. pr. & vb. n. Packeting.]
1. To make up into a packet or bundle.
2. To send in a packet or dispatch vessel. Her husband Was packeted to France. Ford.
Pack"et, v. i.
Definition: To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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