mealtide

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See also: meal-tide

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Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

mealtide (countable and uncountable, plural mealtides)

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

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