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mealtide

noun

Etymology

From Middle English meeletide, equivalent to meal + -tide (“time, period, hour”). Compare Dutch maaltijd, German Mahlzeit, Icelandic máltíð.

  1. inherited from meeletide

Definitions

  1. The tide or time when one receives their part, portion, or measure of food

    The tide or time when one receives their part, portion, or measure of food; the hour for a meal; mealtime.

    • Bleeding at heart is he Who has to ask For food at every mealtide.
    • At Sandwich, ‘mine host Gyllam De La Towr’ was paid 6s 8d ‘for our mealtides from Sunday till Friday’.
    • She hid her thoughts and led Arinbjorn onward. It was close to mealtide at the hall when she let him go.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mealtide. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA