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7 April 2014

coffle

[kaw-fuhl, kof-uhl]

noun

1. a line of animals, prisoners, or slaves chained and driven along together. ‘Most reached their destinations in coffles … ‘, from The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution that Transformed the South by Bruce Levine.
verb (used with object), cof·fled, cof·fling.
2. to chain in a coffle.

Origin: from Arabic qāfilah caravan

Anagram

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Today’s aphorism

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

– Henry Ford

On this day

7 April 1933 – beer available again in 19 U.S. states since it had been banned on 16 January 1920.

7 April 1947 – death of Henry Ford, American industrialist and car maker.