In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
TRICKLE
drip, trickle, dribble
(noun) flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid; “there’s a drip through the roof”
trickle, dribble, filter
(verb) run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream; “water trickled onto the lawn from the broken hose”; “reports began to dribble in”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
trickle (plural trickles)
A very thin river.
A very thin flow; the act of trickling.
Verb
trickle (third-person singular simple present trickles, present participle trickling, simple past and past participle trickled)
(transitive) to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously.
(intransitive) to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously.
(intransitive) To move or roll slowly.
Anagrams
• tickler
Source: Wiktionary
Tric"kle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trickled; p. pr. & vb. n. Trickling.] Etym: [OE. triklen, probably for striklen, freq. of striken to flow, AS. str. See Strike, v. t.]
Definition: To flow in a small, gentle stream; to run in drops. His salt tears trickled down as rain. Chaucer. Fast beside there trickled softly down A gentle stream. Spenser.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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