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.
THRID
Verb
thrid
(archaic) simple past tense of thread
Verb
thrid (third-person singular simple present thrids, present participle thridding, simple past and past participle thridded)
(archaic) To pass through in the manner of a thread or a needle; to make or find a course through; to thread.
(archaic) To make or effect (a way or course) through something.
Noun
thrid (plural thrids)
(obsolete) A thread.
Anagrams
• drith, third
Source: Wiktionary
Thrid, a.
Definition: Third. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Thrid, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thridded; p. pr. & vb. n. Thridding.] Etym: [A variant of thread.]
1. To pass through in the manner of a thread or a needle; to make or find a course through; to thread. Some thrid the mazy ringlets of her hair. Pope. And now he thrids the bramble bush. J. R. Drake. I began To thrid the musky-circled mazes. Tennyson.
2. To make or effect (a way or course) through something; as, to thrid one's way through a wood.
Thrid, n.
Definition: Thread; continuous line. [Archaic] I resume the thrid of my discourse. Dryden.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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