human
Melsupper (where mel signifies meal, or else the instrument called with us a
gpt
Mell, wherewith antiquity reduced their corn to meal in a mortar, which still amounts to the same thing); for provisions of meal, or of corn in furmety, etc., composed by far the greatest part in these elder and country entertainments, perfectly conformable to the simplicity of those times, places, and persons, however meanly they may now be looked upon. And as the harvest was last concluded with several preparations of meal, or brought to be ready for the
human
this term became, in a translated signification, to mean the last of other things; as, when a horse comes last in the race, they often say in the North,
gpt
He has got the mell.
human
Churn-supper; and this is entirely different from
gpt
Melsupper: but they generally happen so near together that they are frequently confounded. The
human
Churn-supper was always provided when all was shorn, but the
gpt
Melsupper after all was got in. And it was called the
human
Churn-supper