In the 18th century, the Swedish government made coffee and its paraphernalia (including cups and dishes) illegal for its supposed ties to rebellious sentiment.
SPACESHIP
starship, spaceship
(noun) a spacecraft designed to carry a crew into interstellar space (especially in science fiction)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
spaceship (plural spaceships)
A vehicle that flies through space.
(cellular automata) A finite pattern that reappears after a certain number of generations in the same orientation but in a different position.
Hyponym: glider
(programming) The operator <=> in the Perl, PHP and Ruby programming languages, which compares two values and indicates whether the first is lesser than, greater than, or equal to the second.
Synonyms
• (vehicle): spacecraft
Hypernyms
• ship
Hyponyms
• generation ship
Source: Wiktionary
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GUILLOTINE
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
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