nunchion

From that time we made but one meal, that only lasted the whole day; so that I cannot well tell how I may call it, whether dinner, supper, nunchion, or after-supper; only, to get a stomach, we took a turn or two in the island, to see and hear the blessed singing-birds.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

From that time we made but one meal, that only lasted the whole day; so that I cannot well tell how I may call it, whether dinner, supper, nunchion, or after-supper; only, to get a stomach, we took a turn or two in the island, to see and hear the blessed singing-birds.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

The catchpole being packed off on blind Sorrel — so he called his one-eyed mare — Basche sent for his lady, her women, and all his servants, into the arbour of his garden; had wine brought, attended with good store of pasties, hams, fruit, and other table-ammunition, for a nunchion; drank with them joyfully, and then told them this story:

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

The catchpole being packed off on blind Sorrel — so he called his one-eyed mare — Basche sent for his lady, her women, and all his servants, into the arbour of his garden; had wine brought, attended with good store of pasties, hams, fruit, and other table-ammunition, for a nunchion; drank with them joyfully, and then told them this story:

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

A. short meal between breakfast and dinner; nunchion, luncheon.

The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire James Jennings

"Yes, - I left London this morning at eight o'clock, and the only ten minutes I have spent out of my chaise since that time procured me a nunchion at Marlborough."

Sense and Sensibility 1833

The catchpole being packed off on blind Sorrel -- so he called his one-eyed mare -- Basche sent for his lady, her women, and all his servants, into the arbour of his garden; had wine brought, attended with good store of pasties, hams, fruit, and other table-ammunition, for a nunchion; drank with them joyfully, and then told them this story:

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

Some say there is no breakfast like a student's, no dinner like a lawyer's, no afternoon's nunchion like a vine-dresser's, no supper like a tradesman's, no second supper like a serving-wench's, and none of these meals equal to a frockified hobgoblin's.

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

From that time we made but one meal, that only lasted the whole day; so that I cannot well tell how I may call it, whether dinner, supper, nunchion, or after-supper; only, to get a stomach, we took a turn or two in the island, to see and hear the blessed singing-birds.

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

I came to get my four hours’ nunchion from you, man, besides a tune on the lute from my god-daughter,

The Fortunes of Nigel 2004