SPEEDER

speeder, speed demon

(noun) a driver who exceeds the safe speed limit

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

speeder (plural speeders)

One who speeds, or exceeds the maximum legal speed limit.

(dated) A machine for drawing and twisting slivers to form rovings, in spinning.

a motorized railroad track crew cart

Anagrams

• preseed, speered

Source: Wiktionary


Speed"er, n.

1. One who, or that which, speeds.

2. (Spinning)

Definition: A machine for drawing and twisting slivers to form rovings.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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LEPTOMENINGES

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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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