gen. Meal made of corn or grain; spec. in Scotl., oatmeal; in U.S., meal of maize or Indian corn.
1820. Scott, Monast., viii. To put in a handful of ashes amongst Christian folk’s corn-meal.
1855. W. Sargent, Braddock’s Exp., 85. Their … corn-meal, either ground by hand or pounded in a wooden mortar, afforded their only bread.
1879. Marion C. Tyree, Housekeep. Old Virginia, 60. Take one quart sifted corn meal and a teacup of cracklins.
