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.
TARRIED
TARRY
tarry, linger
(verb) leave slowly and hesitantly
loiter, lounge, footle, lollygag, loaf, lallygag, hang around, mess about, tarry, linger, lurk, mill about, mill around
(verb) be about; “The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square”; “Who is this man that is hanging around the department?”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
tarried
simple past tense and past participle of tarry
Anagrams
• tardier
Source: Wiktionary
TARRY
Tar"ry, a. Etym: [From Tar, n.]
Definition: Consisting of, or covered with, tar; like tar.
Tar"ry, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tarried; p. pr. & vb. n. Tarrying.] Etym: [OE. tarien to irritate (see Tarre); but with a change of sense probably due to confusion with OE. targen to delay, OF. targier, fr. (assumed) LL. tardicare, fr. L. tardare to make slow, to tarry, fr. tardus slow. Cf. Tardy.]
1. To stay or remain behind; to wait. Tarry ye for us, until we come again. Ex. xxiv. 14.
2. To delay; to put off going or coming; to loiter. Come down unto me, tarry not. Gen. xic. 9. One tarried here, there hurried one. Emerson.
3. To stay; to abide; to continue; to lodge. Tarry all night, and wash your feet. Gen. xix. 2.
Syn.
– To abide; continue; lodge; await; loiter.
Tar"ry, v. t.
1. To delay; to defer; to put off. [Obs.] Tarry us here no longer than to-morrow. Chaucer.
2. To wait for; to stay or stop for. [Archaic] He that will have a cake out of the wheat must needs tarry the grinding. Shak. He plodded on, . . . tarrying no further question. Sir W. Scott.
Tar"ry, n.
Definition: Stay; stop; delay. [Obs.] E. Lodge.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
Recent Word Finds
Word of the Day
26 December 2024
CHATTEL
(noun) personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc)
Coffee Trivia
