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.
SKEINING
Etymology
Noun
skeining (usually uncountable, plural skeinings)
The winding of thread on a rotating reel in a reciprocating manner so as to form a skein of uniform thickness.
Verb
skeining
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of skein
Source: Wiktionary
SKEIN
Skein, n. Etym: [OE. skeyne, OF. escaigne, F. Ă©cagne, probably of Celtic origin; cf. Ir. sgainne, Gael. sgeinnidh thread, small twine; or perhaps the English word is immediately from Celtic.]
1. A quantity of yarn, thread, or the like, put up together, after it is taken from the reel, -- usually tied in a sort of knot.
Note: A skein of cotton yarn is formed by eighty turns of the thread round a fifty-four inch reel.
2. (Wagon Making)
Definition: A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle. Knight.
Skein, n. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A flight of wild fowl (wild geese or the like). [Prov. Eng.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ROOTS
(noun) the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage; “his roots in Texas go back a long way”; “he went back to Sweden to search for his roots”; “his music has African roots”
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