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Undermeal

Un"der*meal`\, n. [AS. under under + m?l part or portion; cf. AS. underm?l midday. See Under, Meal a part, and cf. Undern.]

1. The inferior, or after, part of the day; the afternoon. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

In undermeals and in mornings. --Chaucer.

2. Hence, something occurring or done in the afternoon; esp., an afternoon meal; supper; also, an afternoon nap; a siesta. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

Another great supper, or undermeal, was made ready for them, coming home from ditching and plowing. --Withals (1608).

I think I am furnished with Cattern [Catharine] pears for one undermeal. --B. Jonson.

In a narrower limit than the forty years' undermeal of the seven sleepers. --Nash.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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