There are more than 50 countries that export coffee. They are near the equator, where the climate is conducive to producing coffee beans.
wafers
plural of wafer
Source: Wiktionary
Wa"fer, n. Etym: [OE. wafre, OF. waufre, qaufre, F. qaufre; of Teutonic origin; cf. LG. & D. wafel, G. waffel, Dan. vaffel, Sw. våffla; all akin to G. wabe a honeycomb, OHG. waba, being named from the resemblance to a honeycomb. G. wabe is probably akin to E. weave. See Weave, and cf. Waffle, Gauffer.]
1. (Cookery)
Definition: A thin cake made of flour and other ingredients. Wafers piping hot out of the gleed. Chaucer. The curious work in pastry, the fine cakes, wafers, and marchpanes. Holland. A woman's oaths are wafers -- break with making B. Jonson.
2. (Eccl.)
Definition: A thin cake or piece of bread (commonly unleavened, circular, and stamped with a crucifix or with the sacred monogram) used in the Eucharist, as in the Roman Catholic Church.
3. An adhesive disk of dried paste, made of flour, gelatin, isinglass, or the like, and coloring matter, -- used in sealing letters and other documents. Wafer cake, a sweet, thin cake. Shak.
– Wafer irons, or Wafer tongs (Cookery), a pincher-shaped contrivance, having flat plates, or blades, between which wafers are baked.
– Wafer woman, a woman who sold wafer cakes; also, one employed in amorous intrigues. Beau. & Fl.
Wa"fer, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wafered; p. pr. & vb. n. Wafering.]
Definition: To seal or close with a wafer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 May 2025
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
There are more than 50 countries that export coffee. They are near the equator, where the climate is conducive to producing coffee beans.