In the 18th century, the Swedish government made coffee and its paraphernalia (including cups and dishes) illegal for its supposed ties to rebellious sentiment.
TURBINES
Noun
turbines
plural of turbine
Anagrams
• Burstein, burnsite, tribunes, tuberins
Source: Wiktionary
TURBINE
Tur"bine, n. Etym: [L. turbo, -inis, that which spins or whirls round, whirl.]
Definition: A water wheel, commonly horizontal, variously constructed, but usually having a series of curved floats or buckets, against which the water acts by its impulse or reaction in flowing either outward from a central chamber, inward from an external casing, or from above downward, etc.; -- also called turbine wheel.
Note: In some turbines, the water is supplied to the wheel from below, instead of above. Turbines in which the water flows in a direction parallel to the axis are called parallel-flow turbines.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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