1850 D. J. Browne Amer. Poultry Yard 48 Certain hens..are called Monositæ, (that is, one-mealers, or such as eat only once a day).

1899 R. Whiteing No. 5 John St. 111 The half-mealers, who always leave off with a hungry belly.

1880 Harper's Mag. Sept. 619/2 The term ‘mealer’ is applied to those boarders living outside in the cottages.

1883 M. F. Sweetser Summer Days 126 That class of the community known as ‘hauled mealers’.

1887 A. A. Hayes Jesuit's Ring 52 You are a ‘mealer’ here.

1912 N. M. Woodrow Sally Salt 104 Besides the farm, I make something taking in mealers.

1928 Amer. Speech 3 434 I remember hearing ‘roomers and mealers’ even in Boston.

1890 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang II. 48/2 Mealer, in temperance lingo, is a partial abstainer who pledges himself to drink intoxicating liquor only at his meals.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1412/1 Mealer, a wooden rubber for mealing powder.

1912 Man 12 175 Among the relics found were..broken objects of household use in stone, such as pot-boilers, mealers, whetstones, and spindle-whorls.

1926 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 56 413 It [sc. a pestle]..is truncate at the ends, much compressed in form and distinctly bilateral, thereby affording evidence of having been employed with a different motion from that of the big sub-cylindrical mealers.