noun

• (countable) Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity (as opposed to a snack).
  "Breakfast is the morning meal, lunch is the noon meal, and dinner, or supper, is the evening meal."
• (countable) Food served or eaten as a repast.
  "a1450, The Macro Playsː If thou wilt fare well at meat and meal, come and follow me."
• (uncountable, informal) A break taken by a police officer in order to eat.
  "They [tape recorders] can be turned off while officers are on meal or in the car to protect their private conversations […]"
• (obsolete) A time or an occasion.
  "Ye wolde wepe at every mele; But for my sone wepe ye never a dele. You would weep at every meal, but for my son you never weep a deal."

verb

• (intransitive, obsolete) To yield or be plentiful in meal.
  "Of course the yield of grain was small, but much greater than could have been expected; and, the ears being well filled, it mealed well. The pastures were burnt up, so that there was nothing left for the cattle to eat."

noun

• (UK dialectal) A speck or spot.

verb

• (transitive) To defile or taint.
  "Were he meal'd with that / Which he corrects, than were he tyrannous."