undermeal noun3 •(no longer used) An afternoon meal or snack.Another great supper, or undermeal, was made ready for them, coming home from ditching and plowing. — 1608 •(no longer used) Synonym of siesta: an afternoon nap.In a narrower limit than the forty years' undermeal of the seven sleepers. — 1599 •(no longer used) Synonym of undern: originally terce and the morning, later (UK, dialectal, obsolete) noon and the early afternoon.By the time—he hath din'd at a taverne, and slept his undermeals at a bawdy-house, his purse is [empty]. — 1599 formsundermeals