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.
ROWING
rowing, row
(noun) the act of rowing as a sport
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
rowing
present participle of row
Noun
rowing (countable and uncountable, plural rowings)
The action of the verb to row.
The action of propelling a boat with oars.
The rowing of boats as a competitive sport.
The act of having a row, or argument.
Synonyms
• sculling
Anagrams
• Ingrow, growin', ingrow
Source: Wiktionary
ROW
Row, a. & adv. Etym: [See Rough.]
Definition: Rough; stern; angry. [Obs.] "Lock he never so row." Chaucer.
Row, n. Etym: [Abbrev. fr. rouse, n.]
Definition: A noisy, turbulent quarrel or disturbance; a brawl. [Colloq.] Byron.
Row, n. Etym: [OE. rowe, rawe, rewe, AS. raw, r; probably akin to D. rij, G. reihe; cf. Skr. r a line, stroke.]
Definition: A series of persons or things arranged in a continued line; a line; a rank; a file; as, a row of trees; a row of houses or columns. And there were windows in three rows. 1 Kings vii. 4. The bright seraphim in burning row. Milton. Row culture (Agric.), the practice of cultivating crops in drills.
– Row of points (Geom.), the points on a line, infinite in number, as the points in which a pencil of rays is intersected by a line.
Row, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Rowing.] Etym: [AS. r; akin to D. roeijen, MHG. rüejen, Dan. roe, Sw. ro, Icel. r, L. remus oar, Gr. aritra. sq. root8. Cf. Rudder.]
1. To propel with oars, as a boat or vessel, along the surface of water; as, to row a boat.
2. To transport in a boat propelled with oars; as, to row the captain ashore in his barge.
Row, v. i.
1. To use the oar; as, to row well.
2. To be moved by oars; as, the boat rows easily.
Row, n.
Definition: The act of rowing; excursion in a rowboat.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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