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.
SAWDUST
sawdust
(noun) fine particles of wood made by sawing wood
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
sawdust (usually uncountable, plural sawdusts)
The fine particles (dust) of wood created by sawing.
Verb
sawdust (third-person singular simple present sawdusts, present participle sawdusting, simple past and past participle sawdusted)
To sprinkle with sawdust.
[…] the raking out of yesterday's fire, the kindling of to-day's under the collegiate boiler, the filling of that Spartan vessel at the pump, the sweeping and sawdusting of the common room, and other such preparations.
Source: Wiktionary
Saw"dust`, n.
Definition: Dust or small fragments of wood 9or of stone, etc.) made by the cutting of a saw.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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