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.
TENTERS
Noun
tenters
plural of tenter
Anagrams
• Netters, entrest, netster, netters, retents, testern
Source: Wiktionary
TENTER
Ten"ter, n.
1. One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman.
2. (Mach.)
Definition: A kind of governor.
Ten"ter, n. Etym: [OE. tenture, tentoure, OF. tenture a stretching, spreading, F. tenture hangings, tapestry, from L. tendere, tentum, to stretch. See Tend to move.]
Definition: A machine or frame for stretching cloth by means of hooks, called tenter-hooks, so that it may dry even and square. Tenter ground, a place where tenters are erected.
– Tenter-hook, a sharp, hooked nail used for fastening cloth on a tenter.
– To be on the tenters, or on the tenter-hooks, to be on the stretch; to be in distress, uneasiness, or suspense. Hudibras.
Ten"ter, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tentered; p. pr. & vb. n. Tentering.]
Definition: To admit extension. Woolen cloth will tenter, linen scarcely. Bacon.
Ten"ter, v. t.
Definition: To hang or stretch on, or as on, tenters.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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