In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
TREMOR
tremor, shudder
(noun) an involuntary vibration (as if from illness or fear)
tremor, earth tremor, microseism
(noun) a small earthquake
tremor
(noun) shaking or trembling (usually resulting from weakness or stress or disease)
tremor, quake
(verb) shake with seismic vibrations; “The earth was quaking”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
tremor (plural tremors)
A shake, quiver, or vibration.
A rhythmic, uncontrollable shaking of all or part of the body due to partial muscle contractions.
An earthquake.
Verb
tremor (third-person singular simple present tremors, present participle tremoring, simple past and past participle tremored)
To shake or quiver excessively and rapidly or involuntarily; to tremble.
Anagrams
• remort, termor
Source: Wiktionary
Tre"mor, n. Etym: [L., from tremere to tremble. See Tremble, v.]
Definition: A trembling; a shivering or shaking; a quivering or vibratory motion; as, the tremor of a person who is weak, infirm, or old. He fell into an universal tremor of all his joints. Harvey.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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