Definition of "mealing" []

• Present participle of meal. (verb)

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• "I could never fancy taking a cruise alone in a yacht, especially without a crew, as two or three gentlemen have done; but nothing is more pleasant than sailing in company with another yacht, with a merry party on board each vessel, and exchanging visits, sometimes "mealing" -- as Uncle Tom called it -- on board the one, sometimes on board the other, as we always did when in harbour."
• "Neither a year's time nor Mrs. McKee's approaching change of state had altered the "mealing" house."
• "CHETRY: Yet there are so many varying organizations sort of piece mealing it and not to disparage what they are doing because they are trying to help an immensely poor nation but is there some sort of future organizational structure where this can be done on a mass level, in a way that helps fuel the economy of Haiti?"