A portion to be swallowed; a (large) lump or mouthful of food. Formerly also spec.: †a ball of meal or grain used to feed poultry (obsolete); †a…

Grain fallen from the ear, and available for the feeding of pigs, poultry, etc., after the harvest; a supply of fallen grain for this purpose. Also…

Perhaps: = petun, n.

A mass of dough or paste used for cramming fowls, etc.; any food used to fatten. dialect.

Grain or other food given to chickens. Obsolete.

dialect. (See quot. 1825.)

literal. Food for chickens.

†(a) ? fried cake, pancake; (b) = cram, n. 1 (dialect).

a special food for laying hens.

= laying meal n.

. feed for pigs or poultry, consisting of sterilized kitchen waste.

a supplementary food for poultry (see quot. 1951).

= balancer meal n.