Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
SKITTLES
ninepins, skittles
(noun) a bowling game that is played by rolling a bowling ball down a bowling alley at a target of nine wooden pins
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
skittles (uncountable)
(mostly British, uncountable) A pub game in which a ball is rolled down a wooden alley in order to knock down as many of the nine skittles as possible.
(uncountable, chiefly, chess) An informal form of chess played without a clock.
Noun
skittles
plural of skittle
Source: Wiktionary
Skit"tles, n. pl. Etym: [Of Scand. origin. sq. root159. See Shoot, v. t., and cf. Shuttle, Skit, v. t.]
Definition: An English game resembling ninepins, but played by throwing wooden disks, instead of rolling balls, at the pins.
SKITTLE
Skit"tle, a.
Definition: Pertaining to the game of skittles. Skittle alley, an alley or court in which the game of skittles is played.
– Skittle ball, a disk or flattish ball of wood for throwing at the pins in the game of skittles.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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