foremeal

plural foremeals · alternative fore-meal

1. countableuncountableA meal eaten early or prior to some other activity.

   We're awakened early in the morning to eat foremeal, followed by several hours of training.

   2019, C.K. Brooks, A Captive's Portion

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   In other words, this fore-meal must be allowed and practised, he insists that it shall be so regulated as not to give rise to the evils of which he complains. But does Paul in fact approve of this fore-meal at all?

   1849, James Austin Bastow, A Biblical Dictionary

   As this feeding experiment <>, we have developed the following method: before a meal, a so-called foremeal is given, consisting of propeptans (these are specially prepared, decomposed foods of the same sort) whereby the effects of the suspected food are completely nullified.

   1934, Ars Medici: The Journal of the American Medical Association