Category:Undermeal

Un"der*meal`, n. Etym: [as. under under + m part or portion; cf. As. Underm 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.