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.
WREAKS
Verb
wreaks
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wreak
Anagrams
• wakers, wrakes
Source: Wiktionary
WREAK
Wreak, v. i.
Definition: To reck; to care. [Obs.] Shak.
Wreak, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wreaked; p. pr. & vb. n. Wreaking.] Etym: [OE. wrek to revenge, punish, drive out, AS. wrecan; akin to OFries. wreka, OS. wrekan to punish, D. wreken to avenge, G. rächen, OHG. rehhan, Icel. reka to drive, to take vengeance, Goth. wrikan to persecute, Lith. vargas distress, vargti to suffer distress, L. urgere to drive, urge, Gr. Urge, Wreck, Wretch.]
1. To revenge; to avenge. [Archaic] He should wreake him on his foes. Chaucer. Another's wrongs to wreak upon thyself. Spenser. Come wreak his loss, whom bootless ye complain. Fairfax.
2. To execute in vengeance or passion; to inflict; to hurl or drive; as, to wreak vengeance on an enemy. On me let Death wreak all his rage. Milton. Now was the time to be avenged on his old enemy, to wreak a grudge of seventeen years. Macaulay. But gather all thy powers, And wreak them on the verse that thou dost weave. Bryant.
Wreak, n. Etym: [Cf. AS. wræc exile, persecution, misery. See Wreak, v. t.]
Definition: Revenge; vengeance; furious passion; resentment. [Obs.] Shak. Spenser.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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