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.
SHAMBLES
abattoir, butchery, shambles, slaughterhouse
(noun) a building where animals are butchered
shambles
(noun) a condition of great disorder
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
shambles (plural shambles)
work done in a poor fashion
a scene of great disorder or ruin
a great mess or clutter
a scene of bloodshed, carnage or devastation
a slaughterhouse
(archaic) a butcher's shop
Verb
shambles
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of shamble
Source: Wiktionary
SHAMBLE
Sham"ble, n. Etym: [OE. schamel a bench, stool, AS. scamel, sceamol, a bench, form, stool, fr. L. scamellum, dim. of scamnum a bench, stool.]
1. (Mining)
Definition: One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level.
2. pl.
Definition: A place where butcher's meat is sold. As summer flies are in the shambles. Shak.
3. pl.
Definition: A place for slaughtering animals for meat. To make a shambles of the parliament house. Shak.
Sham"ble, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Shambled; p. pr. & vb. n. Shambling.] Etym: [Cf. OD. schampelen to slip, schampen to slip away, escape. Cf. Scamble, Scamper.]
Definition: To walk awkwardly and unsteadily, as if the knees were weak; to shuffle along.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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