In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
RESTEM
Etymology
Verb
restem (third-person singular simple present restems, present participle restemming, simple past and past participle restemmed)
To force back against the current.
To stem, or move against.
Anagrams
• Emerts, Mester, S meter, Tesmer, merest, mester, meters, metres, termes
Source: Wiktionary
Re*stem" (r*stm"), v. t.
1. To force back against the current; as, to restem their backward course. Shak.
2. To stem, or as, to restem a current.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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