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.
SWARF
Etymology 1
Noun
swarf (countable and uncountable, plural swarfs)
(uncountable) The waste chips or shavings from an abrasive activity, such as metalworking, a saw cutting wood, or the use of a grindstone or whetstone. [from mid 16th c.]
(countable) A particular waste chip or shaving.
Synonyms
• (chips or shavings): turnings
Verb
swarf (third-person singular simple present swarfs, present participle swarfing, simple past and past participle swarfed)
(transitive) To grind down.
Etymology 2
Verb
swarf (third-person singular simple present swarfs, present participle swarfing, simple past and past participle swarfed)
(intransitive, Scotland, obsolete) To grow languid; to faint.
Noun
swarf (plural swarfs)
(obsolete) A faint or swoon.
Anagrams
• FWSAR, Warfs
Source: Wiktionary
Swarf, v. i. Etym: [Cf. Swerve.]
Definition: To grow languid; to faint. [Scot.] "To swarf for very hunger." Sir W. Scott.
Swarf, n. Etym: [Cf. Swerve.]
Definition: The grit worn away from grindstones in grinding cutlery wet. [Prov. Eng.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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