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.
STUMPAGE
Etymology
Noun
stumpage (countable and uncountable, plural stumpages)
Trees and other standing timber, treated as a commodity.
• C. S. Sargent
The value of this timber.
The right to fell such timber.
The fee for the right to fell such timber.
Source: Wiktionary
Stump"age, n.
1. Timber in standing trees, -- often sold without the land at a fixed price per tree or per stump, the stumps being counted when the land is cleared. [Local, U.S.] Only trees above a certain size are allowed to be cut by loggers buying stumpage from the owners of land. C. S. Sargent.
2. A tax on the amount of timber cut, regulated by the price of lumber. [Local, U.S.] The Nation.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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