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.
SCISSOR
scissor
(verb) cut with or as if with scissors
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
scissor (plural scissors)
(rare) One blade on a pair of scissors.
(India) Scissors.
(noun adjunct) Used in certain noun phrases to denote a thing resembling the action of scissors, as scissor kick, scissor hold (wrestling), scissor jack.
Verb
scissor (third-person singular simple present scissors, present participle scissoring, simple past and past participle scissored)
(transitive) To cut using, or as if using, scissors.
(transitive) To excise or expunge something from a text.
(transitive, obsolete) To reproduce (text) as an excerpt, copy.
(transitive, intransitive) To move something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs.
(intransitive, sex) To engage in scissoring (tribadism), a sexual act in which two women intertwine their legs and rub their vulvas against each other.
(skating) To skate with one foot significantly in front of the other.
Source: Wiktionary
Scis"sor, v. t.
Definition: To cut with scissors or shears; to prepare with the aid of scissors. Massinger.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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