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.
WALES
Wales, Cymru, Cambria
(noun) one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; during Roman times the region was known as Cambria
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Proper noun
Wales (plural Waleses)
One of the four constituent countries of the United Kingdom, formerly a principality
(historical) The area in which the Welsh language and culture predominated, roughly coincident with the modern country.
A surname.
A city in Alaska.
A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK4883).
A town in Maine.
A town in Massachusetts.
A town in New York.
A city in North Dakota.
A submerged ghost town in Ontario, Canada.
A town in Utah.
A village in Wisconsin.
Synonyms
• Welshland
• The Principality
Anagrams
• Swale, alews, lawes, swale, sweal, weals
Noun
wales
plural of wale
Verb
wales
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wale
Anagrams
• Swale, alews, lawes, swale, sweal, weals
Source: Wiktionary
WALE
Wale, n. Etym: [AS. walu a mark of stripes or blows, probably originally, a rod; akin to Icel. völr, Goth. walus a rod, staff. sq. root146. Cf. Goal, Weal a wale.]
1. A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal. Holland.
2. A ridge or streak rising above the surface, as of cloth; hence, the texture of cloth. Thou 'rt rougher far, And of a coarser wale, fuller of pride. Beau & Fl.
3. (Carp.)
Definition: A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position. Knight.
4. (Naut.) (a) pl.
Definition: Certain sets or strakes of the outside planking of a vessel; as, the main wales, or the strakes of planking under the port sills of the gun deck; channel wales, or those along the spar deck, etc. (b) A wale knot, or wall knot. Wale knot. (Naut.) See Wall knot, under 1st Wall.
Wale, v. t.
1. To mark with wales, or stripes.
2. To choose; to select; specifically (Mining), to pick out the refuse of (coal) by hand, in order to clean it. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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