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.
SURBATE
Etymology
Verb
surbate (third-person singular simple present surbates, present participle surbating, simple past and past participle surbated)
(obsolete) To bruise, hurt (the feet, hooves etc.) from walking.
Anagrams
• Buteras, Stauber, Straube, arbutes, surbeat
Source: Wiktionary
Sur*bate", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Surbated; p. pr. & vb. n. Surbating.] Etym: [F. solbatu, p.p., bruised (said of a horse's foot); sole a sole (of a horse's foot) + battu, p.p. of battre to beat.]
1. To make sore or bruise, as the feet by travel. [Obs.] Lest they their fins should bruise, and surbate sore Their tender feet upon the stony ground. Spenser. Chalky land surbates and spoils oxen's feet. Mortimer.
2. To harass; to fatigue. [Obs.] Clarendon.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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