Un·der·meal n.
 1. The inferior, or after, part of the day; the afternoon. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
    In undermeals and in mornings.   --Chaucer.
 2. Hence, something occurring or done in the afternoon; esp., an afternoon meal; supper; also, an afternoon nap; a siesta. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
    Another great supper, or undermeal, was made ready for them, coming home from ditching and plowing.   --Withals (1608).
    I think I am furnished with Cattern [Catharine] pears for one undermeal.   --B. Jonson.
    In a narrower limit than the forty years' undermeal of the seven sleepers.   --Nash.

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