SALVAGEE

Etymology

Noun

salvagee (plural salvagees)

One who is salvaged.

• H. G. Wells, The World Set Free

(nautical) A free rope on a sailing ship (one that does not have a single dedicated purpose).

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

9 January 2025

PRESENTATION

(noun) (obstetrics) position of the fetus in the uterus relative to the birth canal; “Cesarean sections are sometimes the result of abnormal presentations”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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