tidewaiters
plural of tidewaiter
Source: Wiktionary
Tide"wait`er, n.
Definition: A customhouse officer who watches the landing of goods from merchant vessels, in order to secure payment of duties. Swift.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
