Coffee has initially been a food â 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.
TESTERS
Noun
testers
plural of tester
Anagrams
• restest, retests, setters, streets, tersest
Proper noun
Testers
plural of Tester
Anagrams
• restest, retests, setters, streets, tersest
Source: Wiktionary
TESTER
Tes"ter, n. Etym: [OE. testere a headpiece, helmet, OF. testiere, F. tĂȘtiĂšre a head covering, fr. OF. teste the head, F. tĂȘte, fr. L. testa an earthen pot, the skull. See Test a cupel, and cf. TestiĂšre.]
1. A headpiece; a helmet. [Obs.] The shields bright, testers, and trappures. Chaucer.
2. A flat canopy, as over a pulpit or tomb. Oxf. Gross.
3. A canopy over a bed, supported by the bedposts. No testers to the bed, and the saddles and portmanteaus heaped on me to keep off the cold. Walpole.
Tes"ter, n. Etym: [For testern, teston, fr. F. teston, fr. OF. teste the head, the head of the king being impressed upon the coin. See Tester a covering, and cf. Testone, Testoon.]
Definition: An old French silver coin, originally of the value of about eighteen pence, subsequently reduced to ninepence, and later to sixpence, sterling. Hence, in modern English slang, a sixpence; -- often contracted to tizzy. Called also teston. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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