Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
SULLAGE
Etymology
Noun
sullage (usually uncountable, plural sullages)
The liquid discharges from kitchens, washbasins, toilets etc; sewage.
Silt or sediment deposited from flowing water.
That which sullies or defiles.
(metallurgy) The scoria on the surface of molten metal in the ladle.
Anagrams
• Seagull, sea-gull, seagull, ullages
Source: Wiktionary
Sul"lage, n. Etym: [Cf. Suillage, Sulliage.]
1. Drainage of filth; filth collected from the street or highway; sewage. [Obs.] The streets were exceedingly large, well paved, having many vaults and conveyances under them for sullage. Evelyn.
2. That which sullies or defiles. [Obs.] It is the privilege of the celestial luminaries to receive no tincture, sullage, or difilement from the most noisome sinks and dunghills here below. South.
3. (Founding)
Definition: The scoria on the surface of molten metal in the ladle.
4. (Hydraul. Engin.)
Definition: Silt; mud deposited by water. Sullage piece (Founding), the sprue of a casting. See Sprue, n., 1 (b).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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22 September 2024
SPRINGBOARD
(noun) a beginning from which an enterprise is launched; “he uses other people’s ideas as a springboard for his own”; “reality provides the jumping-off point for his illusions”; “the point of departure of international comparison cannot be an institution but must be the function it carries out”
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