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.
PEELS
Noun
peels
plural of peel
Verb
peels
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of peel
Anagrams
• LEEPs, Leeps, Lepes, sleep, speel
Source: Wiktionary
PEEL
Peel, n. Etym: [OE. pel. Cf. Pile a heap.]
Definition: A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep. [Scot.]
Peel, n. Etym: [F. pelle, L. pala.]
Definition: A spadelike implement, variously used, as for removing loaves of bread from a baker's oven; also, a T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry. Also, the blade of an oar.
Peel, v. t. Etym: [Confused with peel to strip, but fr. F. piller to pillage. See Pill to rob, Pillage.]
Definition: To plunder; to pillage; to rob. [Obs.] But govern ill the nations under yoke, Peeling their provinces. Milton.
Peel, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Peeled; p. pr. & vb. n. Peeling.] Etym: [F. peler to pull out the hair, to strip, to peel, fr. L. pilare to deprive of hair, fr. pilus a hair; or perh. partly fr. F. peler to peel off the skin, perh. fr. L. pellis skin (cf. Fell skin). Cf. Peruke.]
1. To strip off the skin, bark, or rind of; to strip by drawing or tearing off the skin, bark, husks, etc.; to flay; to decorticate; as, to peel an orange. The skillful shepherd peeled me certain wands. Shak.
2. To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc.
Peel, v. i.
Definition: To lose the skin, bark, or rind; to come off, as the skin, bark, or rind does; -- often used with an adverb; as, the bark peels easily or readily.
Peel, n.
Definition: The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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