According to WorldAtlas, Finland is the biggest coffee consumer in the entire world. The average Finn will consume 12 kg of coffee each year.
SHALING
Verb
shaling
present participle of shale
Anagrams
• Anglish, Singhal, ashling, haglins, halsing, lashing
Source: Wiktionary
SHALE
Shale, n. Etym: [AS. scealy, scalu. See Scalme, and cf. Shell.]
1. A shell or husk; a cod or pod. "The green shales of a bean." Chapman.
2. Etym: [G. shale.] (Geol.)
Definition: A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure. Bituminous shale. See under Bituminous.
Shale, v. t.
Definition: To take off the shell or coat of; to shell. Life, in its upper grades, was bursting its shell, or was shaling off its husk. I. Taylor.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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