undern

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an archaic term for the forenoon or, later, the afternoon meal-time

   By undern the laborers paused to share their bread.

From Old English undern ('the third hour, mid-morning, 9 a.m.'), from Proto-Germanic *undurni ('the interval between'). Originally a canonical hour; the sense drifted over time from mid-morning toward afternoon or evening in dialect.

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