meal
A part; a fragment; a portion.

meal
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.

meal
Grain that is coarsely ground and unbolted; also, a kind of flour made from beans, pease, etc.; sometimes, any flour, esp. if coarse.

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

meal
To sprinkle with, or as with, meal.

meal
To pulverize; as, mealed powder. coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse the food served and eaten at one time any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times.

meal
meaning. purport. signification.

meal
the food served and eaten at one time. any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times. coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse.