Un"der*meal` (?), n. [AS. under under + ml part or portion; cf. AS. underml midday. See Under, Meal a part, and cf. Undern.]
1.
The inferior, or after, part of the day; the afternoon.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
In undermeals and in mornings.
Chaucer.
2.
Hence, something occurring or done in the afternoon; esp., an afternoon meal; supper; also, an afternoon nap; a siesta.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Another great supper, or undermeal, was made ready for them, coming home from ditching and plowing.
Withals (1608).
I think I am furnished with Cattern [Catharine] pears for one undermeal.
B. Jonson.
In a narrower limit than the forty years' undermeal of the seven sleepers.
Nash.
© Webster 1913.