Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
SCAPPLE
Etymology
Verb
scapple (third-person singular simple present scapples, present participle scappling, simple past and past participle scappled)
(transitive) To work roughly, or shape without finishing, as stone before leaving the quarry.
(transitive) To dress (e.g. stone) in any way short of fine tooling or rubbing.
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Source: Wiktionary
Scap"ple, v. t. Etym: [Cf. OF. eskaper, eschapler, to cut, hew, LL. scapellare. Cf. Scabble.] (a) To work roughly, or shape without finishing, as stone before leaving the quarry. (b) To dress in any way short of fine tooling or rubbing, as stone. Gwilt.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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