(senseid)food Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time (e.g. breakfast = morning meal, lunch = noon meal, etc), and usually in a comparatively large quantity (as opposed to a snack, which is a comparatively small quantity of food).
c1450, Secreta Secretorumː
- He that will cast meal upon meal is not able to have (a) long life.
c1500, The King and the Hermitː
- I have been there and taken deal / And have had many (a) merry meal.
1535?, http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/memem/memem-idx?fmt=entry&type=entry&byte=6087269 Dyfference Astronː
- But above all things beware that thou eat not till thou feel thy stomach empty and that it hath made good digestion of the first meal.
1569, Fenton, http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/memem/memem-idx?fmt=entry&type=entry&byte=1590165 Wondersː
- Besides he was so fantastical and unruly in his appetites, that he used no common meats at his meals, but was fed with the combs of cocks, the tongues of peahens.
1606, http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/memem/memem-idx?fmt=entry&type=entry&byte=2252588 Bodleyː
- Sir, I was thrice at Lamhith, to have dined with the Archeb since your departure, and still he was to dine, at the Court or with some Bishop. But I must and will find him as soon as I may: and rather at a meal, then otherwise, because I would have means, to participate at large, about our Collation.
1606, William Shakespeare, https://books.google.ru/books?id=IRrw8WikzJcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=shakespeare+quotes&hl=en&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwjHifzbs9XOAhXGa5oKHX91DYsQ6AEILzACv=onepage&q=meal&f=false Macbethː
- Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep in the affliction of these terrible dreams that shake us nightly.
1640, Richard Brathwait, http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A16650.0001.001/1:7?rgn=div1;view=fulltext Art asleep Husband? A BOULSTER LECTURE, Stored with all variety of witty Jests, merry Tales, and other pleasant passages; extracted from the choycest Flowers of Phi∣losophy, Poesy, ancient and moderne History''ː
- Give me but so many meals, and thou shalt find me one of the strongest Turkish males that ever English gennet bore.
1796, Robert Bage, https://books.google.ru/books?id=z3xJAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Hermsprong&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjNnZW1t9XOAhXlF5oKHba8CYwQ6AEIITABv=onepage&q=meal&f=false Hermsprong: or, Man As He Is Notː
- This letter was written whilst my hostess of the George was preparing the last meal I ever was to eat.
1835, Edgar Allan Poe, https://books.google.ru/books?id=5xi9ehwMlDgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=edgar+allan+poe+short+stories&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiDwby_xNXOAhWKiCwKHfzSASEQ6AEIKTAAv=onepage&q=meal&f=false The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaallː
- Puss, who seemed in a great measure recovered from her illness, now made a hearty meal of the dead bird, and then went to sleep with much apparent satisfaction.
1837-1839, Charles Dickens, https://books.google.ru/books?id=1bMXAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Adventures+of+Oliver+Twist&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiJ1fHMudXOAhVjMJoKHQvMBIcQ6AEIKTAAv=snippet&q=meal&f=false The Adventures of Oliver Twistː
- Indeed, the worthy gentleman, stimulated perhaps by the immediate prospect of being in active service, was in great spirits and good humor; in proof whereof, it may be here remarked, that he humorously drank all the beer at a draught; and did not utter, on a rough calculation, more than fourscore oaths during the whole progress of the meal.
1982, Steven King, https://books.google.ru/books?id=uagODAAAQBAJ&pg=PR4&dq=The+Dark+Tower&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjQyqPpxtXOAhXIKCwKHfcfARAQ6AEITzAJv=onepage&q=meal&f=false The Dark Tower: The Gunslingerː
- After the meal, he rinsed the cans from which they had eaten (marveling again at his own water extravagance), and when he turned around, Jake was asleep again.
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2016, Melissa Clark, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/24/dining/burrata-salad-recipe.html?_r=0 Consider This Permission to Eat Burrata for Dinner in (w)ː
- In this recipe, I go even further, adding a robust salad to turn a lone cheese into a satisfying summer meal.
Food served or eaten as a repast.
a1450, The Macro Playsː
- If thou wilt fare well at meat and meal, come and follow me.
1855, Walt Whitman, https://books.google.ru/books?id=9U1gZi-O3dEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=leaves+of+grass&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi7p9WYwdXOAhVMjSwKHSwwD1MQ6AEILjACv=onepage&q=meal&f=false Leaves of Grassː
- This is the meal pleasantly set ... . this is the meat and drink for natural hunger. It is for the wicked just the same as the righteous.
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puhekieltä A time or an occasion.
a1425?, https://books.google.ru/books?id=31MJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA208&dq=at+every+mele&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiT8f6Aj9XOAhWE1SwKHSeJAME4mAIQ6AEIGjAAv=onepage&q=at%20every%20mele&f=false The Chester Plays
- You would weep at every meal, but for my son weep ye never a deal.
a1400?-a1470? https://books.google.ru/books?id=FSvAegniXsUC&pg=PA132&lpg=PA132&dq=at+euery+mele&source=bl&ots=wsGZp0hhxp&sig=afTtV0KW6BTJPl22QDK_BfoNVlk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwijmo-Kk9XOAhXpB5oKHWYiCIwQ6AEIIjABv=onepage&q=at%20euery%20mele&f=false The Governance of England,
- (..) by occasion whereof they will, then at every meal, grouch with the king.
a1450, Henry Lovelich, The History of the Holy Grailː
- Which was to them a sorry meal.
a1450, Henry Lovelich, Merlinː
- Also soon as the dragons together feal, betwixt them shall begin a sorry meal.
a1450, The York Playsː
- What mean ye.. to make mourning at ilk a meal?
1481, William Caxton, http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/memem/memem-idx?fmt=entry&type=entry&byte=13557922 Reynard the Foxː
- I shall do late you have so much that ten of you should not eat it at one meal.
a1500, Alexander-Cassamus Fragmentː
- Of all the day throughout, keep I no better meal than on her to think.
c1500, In A Chyrchː
- Thou couth well weep at every meal.
(senseid) The coarse-ground edible part of various grains often used to feed animals; flour or a coarser blend than flour.
puhekieltä A speck or spot.
A part; a fragment; a portion.
puhekieltä To defile or taint.
Were he 'meald''' with that / Which he corrects, than were he tyrannous. ― Shakespeare.
steep, scarped shore region
puhekieltä boondocks
meaning
puhekieltä honey
enjoy