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.
TOD
tod
(adjective) alone and on your own; “don’t just sit there on your tod”
tod
(noun) a unit of weight for wool equal to about 28 pounds
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
tod (plural tods)
(now UK dialect) A fox.
A male fox; a dog; a reynard.
Someone like a fox; a crafty person.
Etymology 2
Noun
tod (plural tods)
A bush, especially of ivy.
An old English measure of weight, usually of wool, containing two stone or 28 pounds (13 kg).
Verb
tod (third-person singular simple present tods, present participle todding, simple past and past participle todded)
(obsolete) To weigh; to yield in tods.
Anagrams
• DOT, DTO, Dot, ODT, OTD, do't, dot
Proper noun
Tod
(colloquial) Todmorden.
Anagrams
• DOT, DTO, Dot, ODT, OTD, do't, dot
Noun
TOD (plural TODs)
Initialism of time of death.
(aviation) Initialism of top of descent.
Proper noun
TOD
A digital video format by JVC.
Anagrams
• DOT, DTO, Dot, ODT, OTD, do't, dot
Source: Wiktionary
Tod (tôd), n. Etym: [Akin to D. todde a rag, G. zotte shag, rag, a tuft of hair, Icel. toddi a piece of a thing, a tod of wool.]
1. A bush; a thick shrub; a bushy clump. [R.] "An ivy todde." Spenser. The ivy tod is heavy with snow. Coleridge.
2. An old weight used in weighing wool, being usually twenty-eight pounds.
3. A fox; -- probably so named from its bushy tail. The wolf, the tod, the brock. B. Jonson. Tod stove, a close stove adapted for burning small round wood, twigs, etc. [U.S.] Knight.
Tod, v. t. & i.
Definition: To weigh; to yield in tods. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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