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▪ I. mealer1|ˈmiːlə(r)|
[f. meal n.2 and v.2 + -er1.]
1. In parasynthetic derivatives (nonce-wds.): One who eats (one, half a) meal in the day.
1849D. J. Browne Amer. Poultry Yd. (1855) 48 Certain hens..are called Monositæ (that is, one-mealers, or such as eat only once a day). 1899R. Whiteing 5 John St. 111 The half-mealers, who always leave off with a hungry belly.
2. U.S. colloq. One who takes his meals at one place and lodges at another; a ‘table-boarder’.
1883M. F. Sweetser Summer Days 126 That class of the community known as ‘hauled mealers’. 1887A. A. Hayes Jesuit's Ring 52 You are a ‘mealer’ here.
3. slang. One pledged to take alcoholic drink only at meals.
1890in Barrère & Leland Dict. Slang.
▪ II. mealer2|ˈmiːlə(r)|
[f. meal v.1 + -er1.]
A wooden rubber for mealing powder.
1875in Knight Dict. Mech.
▪ III. mealer
variant of mailer1. |