Undermeal

Un´der`meal`


n.1.The inferior, or after, part of the day; the afternoon.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.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.