[miːl], (Noun)

Definitions:
- any of the regular occasions in a day when a reasonably large amount of food is eaten
(e.g: the evening meal)


Phrases:
- make a meal of

Origin:
Old English mǣl (also in the sense ‘measure’, surviving in words such as piecemeal ‘measure taken at one time’), of Germanic origin. The early sense of meal involved a notion of ‘fixed time’; compare with Dutch maal ‘meal, (portion of) time’ and German Mal ‘time’, Mahl ‘meal’, from an Indo-European root meaning ‘to measure’

[miːl], (Noun)

Definitions:
- the edible part of any grain or pulse ground to powder
(e.g: she called to Judith to bring some meal for the hens)


Phrases:

Origin:
Old English melu, meolo, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch meel and German Mehl, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin molere ‘to grind’