An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
WINDROW
Etymology
Noun
windrow (plural windrows)
A row of cut grain or hay allowed to dry in a field.
A line of leaves etc heaped up by the wind.
A similar streak of seaweed etc on the surface of the sea formed by Langmuir circulation.
(Canadian) A line of snow or gravel left behind by the edge of a snowplow’s or grader’s blade.
(UK) The green border of a field, dug up in order to carry the earth on other land to mend it.
Verb
windrow (third-person singular simple present windrows, present participle windrowing, simple past and past participle windrowed)
(transitive) To arrange (e.g. new-made hay) in lines or windrows.
Source: Wiktionary
Wind"row`, n. Etym: [Wind + row.]
1. A row or line of hay raked together for the purpose of being rolled into cocks or heaps.
2. Sheaves of grain set up in a row, one against another, that the wind may blow between them. [Eng.]
3. The green border of a field, dug up in order to carry the earth on other land to mend it. [Eng.]
Wind"row, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Windrowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Windrowing.]
Definition: To arrange in lines or windrows, as hay when newly made. Forby.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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