Ŭn′der-mēal, n.

n. [A-S. under, under, and mæl, part or portion, as in piece-meal.]

1Sense 1. The after-part of the day; the afternoon.

I think I am furnished with Cattern [Catharine] pears for one under-meal. B. Jonson.

2Sense 2. Hence, a nap taken in the afternoon; a siesta; doze; sleep.

In a narrower limit than the forty years’ under-meal of the seven sleepers. Nash.

3Sense 3. A meal in the afternoon.

Another great supper, or under-meal, was made ready for them, coming home from ditching and plowing. Withal, 1680.