The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.
SWELT
Etymology 1
Verb
swelt (third-person singular simple present , present participle , simple past swolt or swelted, past participle swolten or swelted)
(obsolete, outside, dialects) To die.
(obsolete, outside, dialects) To succumb or be overcome with emotion, heat, etc.; to faint or swelter
Etymology 2
Verb
swelt
(obsolete) simple past tense of swell
Anagrams
• welts
Source: Wiktionary
Swelt, obs.
Definition: imp. of Swell.
Swelt, v. i. Etym: [OE. swelten to die, to swoon or faint, AS. sweltan to die; akin to OD. swelten to hunger, to fail, OS. sweltan to die, Icel. svelta to die, to hunger, Sw. svälta to hunger, Dan. sulte, Goth. sviltan to die. Cf. Swelter, Sweltry.]
1. To die; to perish. [Obs.]
2. To faint; to swoon. [Obs.] Chaucer. Night she swelt for passing joy. Spenser.
Swelt, v. t.
Definition: To overpower, as with heat; to cause to faint; to swelter. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Bp. Hall.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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