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.
TRASS
Etymology
Noun
trass (countable and uncountable, plural trasses)
(geology) A white to grey volcanic tufa, formed of decomposed trachytic cinders, sometimes used as a cement.
A coarse sort of plaster or mortar, durable in water, and used to line cisterns and other reservoirs of water.
Anagrams
• Stars, sarts, stars, tsars
Source: Wiktionary
Trass, n. Etym: [D. tras or Gr. trass, probably fr. It. terrazzo terrace. See Terrace.] (Geol.)
Definition: A white to gray volcanic tufa, formed of decomposed trachytic cinders; -- sometimes used as a cement. Hence, a coarse sort of plaster or mortar, durable in water, and used to line cisterns and other reservoirs of water. [Formerly written also tarras, tarrace, terras.]
Note: The Dutch trass is made by burning and grinding a soft grayish rock found on the lower Rhine.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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