In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
PREBOIL
Etymology
Verb
preboil (third-person singular simple present preboils, present participle preboiling, simple past and past participle preboiled)
(transitive) To boil in advance.
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FISSILE
(adjective) capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain; “fissile crystals”; “fissile wood”
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