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mealtide en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English meeletide, equivalent to meal + -tide (“time, period, hour”). Compare Dutch maaltijd, German Mahlzeit, Icelandic máltíð.

Meanings

1. (archaic, countable, uncountable) The tide or time when one receives their part, portion, or measure of food; the hour for a meal; mealtime.
   • She hid her thoughts and led Arinbjorn onward. It was close to mealtide at the hall when she let him go. 2003, Poul Anderson, Mother of Kings:
   • Bleeding at heart is he Who has to ask For food at every mealtide. 1903, Ottilia Adelina Liljencrantz, The ward of King Canute:
   • At Sandwich, ‘mine host Gyllam De La Towr’ was paid 6s 8d ‘for our mealtides from Sunday till Friday’. 2002, Alison Hanham, The Celys and Their World:

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