Meat
Meat (mēt) , noun
[Old English mete, Anglo-Saxon mete; akin to Old Saxon mat, meti, Dutch met hashed meat, German mettwurst sausage, Old High German maz food, Icelandic matr, Swedish mat, Danish mad, Gothic mats. Compare Mast fruit, Mush.]
1.
Food, in general; anything eaten for nourishment, either by man or beast. Hence, the edible part of anything; as, the meat of a lobster, a nut, or an egg. — Chaucer
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed,... to you it shall be for meat.
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you.
2.
The flesh of animals used as food; esp., animal muscle; as, a breakfast of bread and fruit without meat.
3.
Dinner; the chief meal. [Obsolete] — Chaucer
Collocations (6)
Meat biscuit , See under Biscuit.
Meat earth (Mining) , vegetable mold. — Raymond
Meat offering (Scripture) , an offering of food, esp. of a cake made of flour with salt and oil.
To go to meat , to go to a meal. [Obsolete]
To sit at meat , to sit at the table in taking food.
Meat , transitive verb
To supply with food. [Obsolete] — Tusser
His shield well lined, his horses meated well.