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.
SEMICIRCLE
semicircle, hemicycle
(noun) a plane figure with the shape of half a circle
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
semicircle (plural semicircles)
Half of a circle.
An instrument for measuring angles.
Source: Wiktionary
Sem"i*cir`cle, n.
1. (a) The half of a circle; the part of a circle bounded by its diameter and half of its circumference. (b) A semicircumference.
2. A body in the form of half of a circle, or half of a circumference.
3. An instrument for measuring angles.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SHTIK
(noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece; “give him a shtik cake”; “he’s a shtik crazy”; “he played a shtik Beethoven”
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