noonmeatn.

OE Antwerp Gloss. (1955) 137 Merenda, nonmete.

lOE Prose Dialogue of Solomon & Saturn I (1982) lix. 34 On xii mo[n]ðum þu sealt syllan þinon ðeowan men vii hund hlafa and xx hlafa buton morgenme[tt]en and nonmettum.

a1225 ( Rule St. Benet (Winteney) (1888) 99 Ðonne eft æfter hire nonmete, rædan hi eft on heore bec odðe syngon heore sealmes.

1428–9 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 71 (MED) Also payd for þe none mete on þe morwe of iij carpenters & ij plomers, a sholdere & a brist of moton.

1495 Act 11 Hen. VII c. 22 §4 Laborers..longe sitting at ther brekfast at ther dyner and nonemete.

1548 W. Thomas Ital. Gram. & Dict. Merenda, breakefast, or noone meate.

1599 A. Hume Hymnes sig. D1 The labowrers that timellie raise All wearie faint and weake: For heate downe to their houses gaise, Noone-meate and sleepe to take.

a1843 R. Southey Common-place Bk. (1849) 477/1 This nonemete..is still the word by which luncheon was called at Bristol in my childhood, but corrupted into nummet.

1874 Q. Rev. July 34 When he begins to feel ‘lere’ (empty), he sits under the ‘lewth’ (shelter) of the ‘rew’ (strip of wood) and eats his ‘nammet’ (noon-meat).

1891 Harper's Mag. July 303/1 The times of the meals were the breakfast at about nine; the ‘noon meat,’ or dinner, at twelve; and the ‘even meat,’ or supper, probably at a movable time depending on the length of the day.

1920 C. M. Doughty Mansoul v. 135 Tall grooms..Attend their fathers giving-thanks to hear; Before noon meat.

1962 Times 17 Nov. 9/4 Nummick is noon-meat or lunch, taken in the fields by farm-hands.

2001 Nursing Homes (Nexis) Mar. 3 (heading) LSH [= Lyngblomsten Service House] clients and staff share noon meat together.