Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Supper

Supper , noun

[Old English soper, super, Old French super, soper, French souper; originally an infinitive, to sup, take a meal. See Soup, and compare Sup to take supper.]

A meal taken at the close of the day; the evening meal.

Supper is much used in an obvious sense, either adjectively or as the first part of a compound; as, supper time or supper-time, supper bell, supper hour, etc.

Supper , intransitive verb

To take supper; to sup. [Rare]

Supper , transitive verb

To supply with supper. [Rare]
Kester was suppering the horses. — Mrs. Gaskell