The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.
WIREDRAW
Etymology
Verb
wiredraw (third-person singular simple present wiredraws, present participle wiredrawing, simple past wiredrew, past participle wiredrawn)
(transitive, now rare) To stretch (some physical thing) out, as though drawing wire; to elongate.
(transitive, obsolete) To stretch (words, a meaning etc.) to suit one's own purpose.
I am of opinion that the uncontrouled libertie, that all men have to wrest, dissipate, and wyredraw a word so religious and important, to so many severall idiomes, hath much more danger than profit following it.
Source: Wiktionary
Wire"draw`, v. t. [imp. Wiredrew; p. p. Wiredrawn; p. pr. & vb. n. Wiredrawing.]
1. To form (a piece of metal) into wire, by drawing it through a hole in a plate of steel.
2. Hence, to draw by art or violence. My sense has been wiredrawn into blasphemy. Dryden.
3. Hence, also, to draw or spin out to great length and tenuity; as, to wiredraw an argument. Such twisting, such wiredrawing, was never seen in a court of justice. Macaulay.
4. (Steam Engine)
Definition: To pass, or to draw off, (as steam) through narrow ports, or the like, thus reducing its pressure or force by friction.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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