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mealware

noun

Etymology

From meal + -ware.

  1. derived from *meh₁-✻ — “to measure”
  2. inherited from *mēlą✻
  3. inherited from *māl✻
  4. inherited from mǣl — “measure, time, occasion, set time, time for eating, meal”
  5. inherited from mel
  6. suffixed as mealware — “meal + ware”

Definitions

  1. Utensils for holding, cooking, or serving a meal.

    • The waitress started to remove the mealware.
    • The slender man hoisted the mealware from the coals and set it to the ground. “Food,” said Karlsson.
    • When lay people go to a place of [practicing] the truth, they should be equipped with the three Dharma-robes, a willow twig, rinsing water, mealware, and a sitting cloth; […]

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