The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.
PIECEMEALING
Verb
piecemealing
present participle of piecemeal
Source: Wiktionary
PIECEMEAL
Piece"meal`, adv. Etym: [OE. pecemele; pece a piece + AS. m, dat. pl. of m part. See Meal a portion.]
1. In pieces; in parts or fragments. "On which it piecemeal brake." Chapman. The beasts will tear thee piecemeal. Tennyson.
2. Piece by piece; by little and little in succession. Piecemeal they win, this acre first, than that. Pope.
Piece"meal`, a.
Definition: Made up of parts or pieces; single; separate. "These piecemeal guilts." Gov. of Tongue.
Piece"meal`, n.
Definition: A fragment; a scrap. R. Vaughan.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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