In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
WHIRRET
Noun
whirret (plural whirrets)
(obsolete) A blow; the act of striking.
Verb
whirret (third-person singular simple present whirrets, present participle whirreting, simple past and past participle whirreted)
(obsolete, transitive) To box someone's ears.
Anagrams
• writher
Source: Wiktionary
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RAREFACTION
(noun) a decrease in the density of something; “a sound wave causes periodic rarefactions in its medium”
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