The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.
STIVES
Etymology
Noun
stives pl (plural only)
(obsolete) stews; a brothel
Source: Wiktionary
Stives, n. pl. Etym: [OE. See Stew.]
Definition: Stews; a brothel. [Obs.] Chaucer.
STIVE
Stive, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stived; p. pr. & vb. n. Stiving.] Etym: [Probably fr. F. estiver to compress, stow, L. stipare: cf. It. stivare, Sp. estivar. Cf. Stevedore, Stiff.]
Definition: To stuff; to crowd; to fill full; hence, to make hot and close; to render stifling. Sandys. His chamber was commonly stived with friends or suitors of one kind or other. Sir H. Wotton.
Stive, v. i.
Definition: To be stifled or suffocated.
Stive, n.
Definition: The floating dust in flour mills caused by the operation or grinding. De Colange.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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