the food served and eaten at one time

coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse

any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times

A part; a fragment; a portion.

The portion of food taken at a particular time for the satisfaction of appetite; the quantity usually taken at one time with the purpose of satisfying hunger; a repast; the act or time of eating a meal; as, the traveler has not eaten a good meal for a week; there was silence during the meal.

Grain ( esp. maize, rye, or oats) that is coarsely ground and unbolted; also, a kind of flour made from beans, pease, etc.; sometimes, any flour, esp. if coarse.

Any substance that is coarsely pulverized like meal, but not granulated.

To sprinkle with, or as with, meal.

To pulverize; as, mealed powder.

Grain coarsely ground; the portion of food taken at one time to satisfy the appetite; food prepared for use upon the table at one time; the act or time of eating.

The food taken at one time: the act or the time of taking food.

Grain ground to powder.

Grain ground but not bolted; a repast.

Coarsely ground grain.

The portion of food taken at one time; a repast.

Food taken statedly at one time; a repast.

The edible part of grain, or pulse ground into flour.

Ground grain not sifted from the bran or coarser portion.

The food taken at one time; a repast; a part; a fragment; piecemeal, by separate pieces; by fragments.

I must begin the day with a good meal, or I am fit for nothing. – My Strangest Case by Guy Boothby

You haven't had much of a meal. – Blake's Burden by Harold Bindloss

Often in the control cabin or over a meal he talked of what lay ahead, and the happiness Earth held waiting for him. – The Passing of Ku Sui by Anthony Gilmore

" I am glad to find that you fellows have been able to give your men a meal," he said. – The First Hundred Thousand by Ian Hay

When we were near the end of our meal, something happened that startled me. – The Black Robe by Wilkie Collins

To- morrow I shall have a fine meal of them. – Philippine Folk-Tales by Clara Kern Bayliss, Berton L. Maxfield, W. H. Millington, Fletcher Gardner, Laura Watson Benedict

Well, run along and I'll get the fish ready for dinner, or whatever you call the next meal. – The Curlytops on Star Island by Howard R. Garis

I think they charge fifty cents for a bed, and the same for each meal." – Herbert Carter's Legacy by Horatio Alger

He gets his meal. – Expositions of Holy Scripture Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers by Alexander Maclaren

When the meal was ready they all sat around to enjoy it. – The Boy Scouts with the Motion Picture Players by Robert Shaler

He had told me to try to think how we were to find food for the next meal. – Out of the Primitive by Robert Ames Bennet

Harry said as they sat down to their evening meal. – The Treasure of the Incas by G. A. Henty

The meal was a good one. – Caught in a Trap by John C. Hutcheson

Father and daughter had but little to say to each other during the meal. – Jane Cable by George Barr McCutcheon

It was Mr. Stanmore here, who was so interested that he forgot all about meal- times. – The Everlasting Arms by Joseph Hocking

You need not hurry with the meal. – Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo by E. Phillips Oppenheim

When the meal was over, he refused coffee, and rose to go on deck. – Charles Rex by Ethel M. Dell

Old Woman sent off to get meal ready. – Dramatic Technique by George Pierce Baker

Sir, you slept through the meal. – Undo-a-Novel-By-Joe-Hutsko by Hutsko, Joe

The meal was a merry one, for when thus left to themselves the children always " pretended." – Marjorie's Busy Days by Carolyn Wells