Crossword-Solution: NUNCHEON 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Troy went on falling steadily meanwhile, and when we had finished our scanty nuncheon I once more led the way, and we passed out into the little yard behind the schoolhouse, and gained the playground, the outer boundary of which was the town wall, here some twelve feet high and in a fair state of preservation.

But we are, although one will fain be a friar and the other a warrior.” He descended the tower after one more lingering glance at the view, but his light nature soon threw off the impression, and none was gayer guest at the noontide meal, the “nuncheon” of Earl Warrenne of Lewes, the lord of the castle.

When Hazlewood's treasures--for he was a collector in his way--were brought to the hammer, the scraps and odds and ends it contained were found classified in groups under such headings as these--Garlands of Gravity, Poverty's Pot Pourri, Wallat of Wit, Beggar's Balderdash, Octagonal Olio, Zany's Zodiac, Noddy's Nuncheon, Mumper's Medley, Quaffing Quavers to Quip Queristers, Tramper's Twattle, or Treasure and Tinsel from the Tewksbury Tank, and the like.

Chezzetcook, or, as it is pronounced by the 'Alligonians, "Chizzencook," is twenty-two miles from Halifax, and as the Acadian peasant has neither horse nor mule, he or she must be off betimes to reach home before mid-day nuncheon.

Drinking seems to have been regarded as more important than eating, for in some counties we find this _nuncheon_ replaced by _bever_, the Anglo-French infinitive from Lat.