meal

The food served and eaten in one sitting.

A customary time or occasion of eating food.

The edible whole or coarsely ground grains of a cereal grass.

A granular substance produced by grinding.

To grind into meal or the state of meal; pulverize: as, mealed powder.—2. To sprinkle with meal, or mix meal with.

To yield or produce meal; be productive in meal: applied to grain: as, the barley does not meal well this year.

To apportion food to; provide with meals or food; feed; fodder.

The edible part of any kind of grain or pulse ground to a powder or flour; flour: as, oatmeal, bean-meal.

Specifically— In the United States, ground maize: more fully called Indian meal and corn-meal.

In Scotland and Ireland, oatmeal.