In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
REWORK
rework, make over, retread
(verb) use again in altered form; “retread an old plot”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
rework (countable and uncountable, plural reworks)
The act of redoing, correcting, or rebuilding.
(in particular, food manufacturing) Taking unsaleable food and using it in the manufacture of other food.
Something redone, corrected or rebuilt.
Work done to correct defects associated with a deliverable product, plus any root cause analysis effort to identify the task(s) to be re-performed.
(countable) An instance of reworking.
Verb
rework (third-person singular simple present reworks, present participle reworking, simple past and past participle (rare) rewrought or reworked)
To redo, correct, or rebuild.
Anagrams
• worker
Source: Wiktionary
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RECREANT
(adjective) having deserted a cause or principle; “some provinces had proved recreant”; “renegade supporters of the usurper”
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