Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
STUBBLES
Noun
stubbles
plural of stubble
Source: Wiktionary
STUBBLE
Stub"ble, n. Etym: [OE. stobil, stoble, OF. estouble, estuble, F. Ă©tuele, LL. stupla, stupula, L. stipula stubble, stalk; cf. D. & G. stopped, OHG. stupfila. Cf. Stipule.]
Definition: The stumps of wheat, rye, barley, oats, or buckwheat, left in the ground; the part of the stalk left by the scythe or sickle. "After the first crop is off, they plow in the wheast stubble." Mortimer. Stubble goose (Zoöl.), the graylag goose. [Prov. Eng.] Chaucer.
– Stubble rake, a rake with long teeth for gleaning in stubble.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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