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.
RAPINE
rape, rapine
(noun) the act of despoiling a country in warfare
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
rapine (countable and uncountable, plural rapines)
The seizure of someone's property by force; pillage, plunder.
Verb
rapine (third-person singular simple present rapines, present participle rapining, simple past and past participle rapined)
(transitive) To plunder.
Anagrams
• Napier, arpine, panier
Source: Wiktionary
Rap"ine, n. Etym: [F. rapine; cf. Pr. & It. rapina; all fr. L. rapina, fr. rapere to seize and carry off by force. See Rapid, and cf. Raven rapine.]
1. The act of plundering; the seizing and carrying away of things by force; spoliation; pillage; plunder. Men who were impelled to war quite as much by the desire of rapine as by the desire of glory. Macaulay.
2. Ravishment; rape. [Obs.] Shak.
Rap"ine, v. t.
Definition: To plunder. Sir G. Buck.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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