<span class="searchmatch">messmates</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">messmate</span>...
From mess + mate. <span class="searchmatch">messmate</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">messmates</span>) (nautical) An associate with whom one shares a mess (eating place) on a ship. 1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck]...
ɣaɣu (Mpakwithi) <span class="searchmatch">messmate</span> tree Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 186...
mesean. Calque of French commensal. comesean m (plural comeseni, feminine equivalent comeseană) table companion, guest at a table <span class="searchmatch">messmate</span> mesean, conviv...
wangnarra <span class="searchmatch">messmate</span> stringybark (Eucalyptus obliqua) ^ B. Gott & J. Conran, Victorian Koorie Plants, 1991, p56 ^ http://museumsvictoria.com...
/ˈlɛːɣʏˌnøyːtʏr/ legunautur m (genitive singular legunautar or legunauts, nominative plural legunautar) bedmate, <span class="searchmatch">messmate</span>, bunkmate 1Much less common....
the magnificent stercoral globe alone holds sway, the two reconciled <span class="searchmatch">messmates</span> sit down face to face. stercoral pocket stercoral (feminine stercorale...
(genitive singular mötunautar or mötunauts, nominative plural mötunautar) <span class="searchmatch">messmate</span> (person who one eats with regularly) 1Much less common. mötuneyti (“cafeteria...
*galaibo, *gahlaibō (“<span class="searchmatch">messmate</span>”, literally “with-bread”), from Proto-Germanic *gahlaibô. Compare also Old High German galeipo (“<span class="searchmatch">messmate</span>”) and Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌷𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌱𐌰...
Frankish *gahlaibō m (“<span class="searchmatch">messmate</span>”, literally “with-bread”), from *hlaib (“loaf, bread”). Compare Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌷𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌱𐌰 (gahlaiba, “<span class="searchmatch">messmate</span>”) from 𐌲𐌰- (ga-...