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.
RIVE
cleave, split, rive
(verb) separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument; “cleave the bone”
rend, rip, rive, pull
(verb) tear or be torn violently; “The curtain ripped from top to bottom”; “pull the cooked chicken into strips”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Verb
rive (third-person singular simple present rives, present participle riving, simple past rove or rived, past participle riven or rived)
(transitive, archaic except in past participle) To tear apart by force; to rend; to split; to cleave.
(transitive, archaic) To pierce or cleave with a weapon.
(intransitive) To break apart; to split.
(transitive, rare) To burst open; explode; discharge.
(woodworking) To use a technique of splitting or sawing wood radially from a log (e.g. clapboards).
Synonyms
• (to rend asunder): cleave, rend, split
Noun
rive (plural rives)
A place torn; a rent; a rift.
Synonyms
• (a place torn): rent, rift
Etymology 2
Noun
rive (plural rives)
A bank or shore.
Verb
rive
To land.
Anagrams
• Iver, iver, vier, vire
Source: Wiktionary
Rive, v. t. [imp. Rived; p. p. Rived or Riven (; p. pr. & vb. n. Riving.] Etym: [Icel. rifa, akin to Sw. rifva to pull asunder, burst, tear, Dan. rive to rake, pluck, tear. Cf. Reef of land, Rifle a gun, Rift, Rivel.]
Definition: To rend asunder by force; to split; to cleave; as, to rive timber for rails or shingles. I shall ryve him through the sides twain. Chaucer. The scolding winds have rived the knotty oaks. Shak. Brutus hath rived my heart. Shak.
Rive, v. i.
Definition: To be split or rent asunder. Freestone rives, splits, and breaks in any direction. Woodward.
Rive, n.
Definition: A place torn; a rent; a rift. [Prov. Eng.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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