There are more than 50 countries that export coffee. They are near the equator, where the climate is conducive to producing coffee beans.
SLUICING
sluicing
(adjective) pouring from or as if from a sluice; “the sluicing rain”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
sluicing
present participle of sluice
Noun
sluicing (plural sluicings)
The act by which something is sluiced; a copious wetting; a drenching.
(linguistics) A kind of ellipsis, introduced by an interrogative, where (usually) everything except the interrogative is elided from the clause, as in "I like him, but I don't know why".
Source: Wiktionary
SLUICE
Sluice, n. Etym: [OF. escluse, F. écluse, LL. exclusa, sclusa, from L. excludere, exclusum, to shut out: cf. D. sluis sluice, from the Old French. See Exclude.]
1. An artifical passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate of flood gate.
2. Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply. Each sluice of affluent fortune opened soon. Harte. This home familiarity . . . opens the sluices of sensibility. I. Taylor.
3. The stream flowing through a flood gate.
4. (Mining)
Definition: A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth. Sluice gate, the sliding gate of a sluice.
Sluice, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sluiced; p. pr. & vb. n. Sluicing.]
1. To emit by, or as by, flood gates. [R.] Milton.
2. To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows. Howitt. He dried his neck and face, which he had been sluicing with cold water. De Quincey.
3. To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SHEET
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