Eating; a meal, esp. a feast or banquet.

The action or habit of taking food.

The action of diet, v.: (a) subjection to a diet or regimen; (b) taking of daily food, feeding (rare); †(c) concrete food (obsolete).

The act of eating. in food: while eating or feeding. Obsolete.

The action of feed, v., in its various senses.

The action of eating; spec. the action of consuming the consecrated host at the Eucharist (usually with modifying word, as carnal, corporal, literal…

The action of biting food; eating; grazing. Hence †bit-grass. Obs.

The action of eating; an instance of this. Also figurative.

The action or fact of eating food; refreshment gained by the consumption of food. Also figurative. Obsolete.

The taking of food or nourishment.

Devotion to the trencher; eating; feasting.

gen. Taking food, feeding.

The action of loading or burdening; spec. the action of filling the stomach, ingestion of food.

The process of eating.

slang. Eating, feeding; concrete food, ‘grub’.

Originally: the action of nibbling a snack or delicacy, esp. surreptitiously. In later use more generally: the action of eating.