meat mealn.1
/ˈmiːt miːl/, U.S. /ˈmit ˌmil/ A meal which includes or consists mainly of meat.
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monophagy1625
brencheese1665
flesh meal1748
cold collation1759
horse-meal1760
meat meal1858
dim sum1945
slow food1972
carbo-load1982
Chinky1983
1858 J. A. Symonds Let. Aug. (1967) I. 154 A very wretched night at Chester after a meat meal (high tea).
1873 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 28 Dec. (1956) V. 475 Dr. Andrew Clark..is not one of the ‘three meat meals and alcohol’ physicians.
1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 465 A substantial meat meal should be provided for breakfast and dinner.
1998 BBC Vegetarian Good Food May 12/2 I only ate about three meat meals and really hated the taste..so I returned to being a veggie.
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meat mealn.2
/ˈmiːt miːl/, U.S. /ˈmit ˌmil/ Meat that has been dried and ground into powder for animal feed.
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1895 Massillon (Ohio) Independent 3 Jan. Meat meal and Sheridan's powder formed their [sc. pullets'] chief stimulating diet.
1898 Westm. Gaz. 8 Oct. 4/2 The residue is dried and ground into meat meal for cattle feeding.
1956 Nature 18 Feb. 343/1 Two experiments..have been completed using White Leghorn chickens up to six weeks old. The basal diet contained crushed wheat, meatmeal and whey powder.
1977 Jrnl. Econ. Lit 15 1440 The regional index numbers in those years cover external trade in bran and other milling by-products, oilseed cakes and meal, and meat meal.
1985 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 310 304 They compared the use of worm meal with meat meal protein supplement for chickens and found no significant difference in growth on the two diets.
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