noun
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a midday break for rest or food
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midday; noon
Etymology
Origin of nooning
late Middle English word dating back to 1425–75; noon, -ing 1
Example Sentences
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A day's work in haying should and can be so planned as to give two hours' nooning in the hottest part of the day.
From When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine by Stephens, C. A. (Charles Asbury)
They were nooning at the time and somehow or other the usual question of revolver-handling had come up.
From When the West Was Young by Bechdolt, Frederick R. (Frederick Ritchie)
Chunky shook his head as if to intimate that the case was a desperate one, and then the nooning had come to an end.
From Down the Slope by Otis, James
Gull, the herring, 211. following the plow, 213. flight, 215. manners, 213. nesting, 216. nooning, 215. penalty for killing, 212. sent to the "Chosen People," 212. value of, 216.
From A Bird-Lover in the West by Miller, Olive Thorne
Once a day at least it seemed to tire from its ceaseless flow and to take a nooning spell.
From Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail by Wilson, F. N. (Frederick N.)
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