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.
POOL
pool, pocket billiards
(noun) any of various games played on a pool table having 6 pockets
pool
(noun) an excavation that is (usually) filled with water
consortium, pool, syndicate
(noun) an association of companies for some definite purpose
pool
(noun) an organization of people or resources that can be shared; “a car pool”; “a secretarial pool”; “when he was first hired he was assigned to the pool”
pool, puddle
(noun) something resembling a pool of liquid; “he stood in a pool of light”; “his chair sat in a puddle of books and magazines”
pond, pool
(noun) a small lake; “the pond was too small for sailing”
pool, puddle
(noun) a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid; “there were puddles of muddy water in the road after the rain”; “the body lay in a pool of blood”
pool, kitty
(noun) the combined stakes of the betters
pool
(noun) any communal combination of funds; “everyone contributed to the pool”
pool
(verb) join or form a pool of people
pool
(verb) combine into a common fund; “We pooled resources”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
pool (plural pools)
A small and rather deep collection of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream; a reservoir for water.
A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.
Ellipsis of swimming pool.
A supply of resources.
(by extension, computing) A set of resources that are kept ready to use.
A small amount of liquid on a surface.
A localized glow of light.
Verb
pool (third-person singular simple present pools, present participle pooling, simple past and past participle pooled)
(intransitive, of a liquid) To form a pool.
Etymology 2
Noun
pool (plural pools)
(game, uncountable) A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the game.
(sport) A cue sport played on a pool table. There are 15 balls, 7 of one colour, 7 of another, and the black ball (also called the 8 ball). A player must pocket all their own colour balls and then the black ball in order to win.
In rifle shooting, a contest in which each competitor pays a certain sum for every shot he makes, the net proceeds being divided among the winners.
Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.
The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards, etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a share; also, the receptacle for the stakes.
A combination of persons contributing money to be used for the purpose of increasing or depressing the market price of stocks, grain, or other commodities; also, the aggregate of the sums so contributed.
A set of players in quadrille etc.
(rail transport) A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.
(legal) An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities.
Verb
pool (third-person singular simple present pools, present participle pooling, simple past and past participle pooled)
(transitive) To put together; contribute to a common fund, on the basis of a mutual division of profits or losses; to make a common interest of.
(intransitive) To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.
Anagrams
• Loop, OOPL, Polo, loop, polo
Source: Wiktionary
Pool, n. Etym: [AS. pol; akin to LG. pool, pohl, D. poel, G. pfuhl; cf. Icel. pollr, also W. pwll, Gael. poll.]
1. A small and rather deep collection of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream; a reservoir for water; as, the pools of Solomon. Wyclif. Charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool. Bacon. The sleepy pool above the dam. Tennyson.
2. A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle. "The filthy mantled pool beyond your cell." Shak.
Pool, n. Etym: [F. poule, properly, a hen. See Pullet.] [Written also poule.]
1. The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards, etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a snare; also, the receptacle for the stakes.
2. A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the game; a game of skill in pocketing the balls on a pool table.
Note: This game is played variously, but commonly with fifteen balls, besides one cue ball, the contest being to drive the most balls into the pockets. He plays pool at the billiard houses. Thackeray.
3. In rifle shooting, a contest in which each competitor pays a certain sum for every shot he makes, the net proceeds being divided among the winners.
4. Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.
5. A combination of persons contributing money to be used for the purpose of increasing or depressing the market price of stocks, grain, or other commodities; also, the aggregate of the sums so contributed; as, the pool took all the wheat offered below the limit; he put $10,000 into the pool.
6. (Railroads)
Definition: A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.
7. (Law)
Definition: An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities. Pin pool, a variety of the game of billiards in which small wooden pins are set up to be knocked down by the balls.
– Pool ball, one of the colored ivory balls used in playing the game at billiards called pool.
– Pool snipe (Zoöl.), the European redshank. [Prov. Eng.] -- Pool table, a billiard table with pockets.
Pool, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pooled; p. pr. & vb. n. Pooling.]
Definition: To put together; to contribute to a common fund, on the basis of a mutual division of profits or losses; to make a common interest of; as, the companies pooled their traffic. Finally, it favors the poolingof all issues. U. S. Grant.
Pool, v. i.
Definition: To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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