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.
PIECEMEALS
Noun
piecemeals
plural 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.
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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