wootz (countable and uncountable, plural wootzes)
A famous type of steel from India, much admired for making sword blades.
In earlier usage it appears as simply wootz (see quotations), later being referred to as wootz steel
Source: Wiktionary
Wootz (woots), n. Etym: [Perhaps a corruption of Canarese ukku steel.]
Definition: A species of steel imported from the East Indies, valued for making edge tools; Indian steel. It has in combination a minute portion of alumina and silica.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
9 May 2025
(noun) anything in accord with principles of justice; “he feels he is in the right”; “the rightfulness of his claim”
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
