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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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