Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
TATH
Etymology 1
Noun
tath (countable and uncountable, plural taths)
(UK dialectal, Scotland) The dung of livestock left on a field to serve as manure or fertiliser.
(UK dialectal, Scotland) A piece of ground dunged by livestock.
(UK dialectal, Scotland) Strong grass growing around the dung of kine.
Etymology 2
Verb
tath (third-person singular simple present taths, present participle tathing, simple past and past participle tathed)
(UK dialectal, Scotland) To manure (land) by pasturing cattle on it, or causing them to lie upon it.
Anagrams
• hatt, that
Source: Wiktionary
Tath, obs.
Definition: 3d pers. sing. pres. of Ta, to take.
Tath, n. Etym: [Prov. E.; of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. ta dung, ta the grass of a manured pasture, te to manure. *58. Cf. Ted.]
1. Dung, or droppings of cattle. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
2. The luxuriant grass growing about the droppings of cattle in a pasture. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Tath, v. t.
Definition: To manure (land) by pasturing cattle on it, or causing them to lie upon it. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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