mealtide

noun

1. The tide or time when one receives their part, portion, or measure of food; the hour for a meal; mealtime.

   archaic, countable, uncountable

   Bleeding at heart is he Who has to ask For food at every mealtide.

Where it comes from

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

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry mealtide (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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