Definitions of meal

1. To sprinkle with, or as with, meal.

2. To pulverize; as, mealed powder.

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

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

5. A part; a fragment; a portion.

6. 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.

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

8. 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.

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

10. Grain ground to powder.

11. Grain ground but not bolted; a repast.

12. Coarsely ground grain.

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

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

15. Ground grain not sifted from the bran or coarser portion.

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