Un·der·meal n.
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.
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