In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
TAILHOOK
Etymology
Noun
tailhook (plural tailhooks)
A device attached to the empennage of some military fixed-wing aircraft, used to achieve rapid deceleration during landings.
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SUFFOCATION
(noun) the condition of being deprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped); “asphyxiation is sometimes used as a form of torture”
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