Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
TINCHEL
Etymology
Noun
tinchel (plural tinchels)
(Scotland) A circle of sportsmen, who, by surrounding an extensive space and gradually closing in, bring a number of deer and game within a narrow compass.
Anagrams
• linchet
Source: Wiktionary
Tin"chel, n. [Written also tinchill.] Etym: [Gael. timchioll a circuit, compass.]
Definition: A circle of sportsmen, who, by surrounding an extensive space and gradually closing in, bring a number of deer and game within a narrow compass. [Scot.] We'll quell the savage mountaineer, As their tinchel cows the game! Sir W. Scott.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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