CHOPSTICKS • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Chopsticks

... work animals. The grain is first washed in cold water and then poured into a kettle with four times its volume of boiling water and cooked for an hour, without salt, as with rice. It is eaten with chopsticks with boiled or salted vegetables. He states that an ordinary servant requires about two pounds of this grain per day, and that a workman at heavy labor will take double the amount. A Chinese friend of his, keeping five servants, supplied them with 240 pounds of millet per month, together ...

— Farmers of Forty Centuries - or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan • F. H. King