supper

noun, the evening meal, often the main meal of the day (COD)

“When I got home, supper was always ready, and Tom could go on and milk his cows.”

“One night we were sitting eating supper, and all of a sudden the door opened, and they said, ‘Hello! We’re here for dessert!'”

“I’d come home for supper then go back to work.”

“At night we took our milk pails and put them over the fence posts so that no animal would get in there and lick, you know, and dirty the milk pails. That’s what we did. And then we went home and had our supper.”

“I just say, ‘Sarah’s away. I need supper.’ Well, up comes the supper on a plate.”

“Like after we’d have our supper, everybody’d go down where the post office is, and we’d get a game of ball.”

“What ferry are you catching?”
“6:30, but we gotta have supper and pick up Joe before that.”

“We went for a walk after supper and his wife was in her bare feet. We walked all the way along the waterfront and got on the ferry.”

“I was fortunate. Len’s mother was living with us, and she always got supper. So when you were on a farm, the farmer needed to eat supper, you know, at suppertime, not at seven or eight o’clock when I’d get it ready.”

“They’d say ‘Now where can we go to have a nice quiet meal along the water where it’s nice and quiet?’ She’d send them to Brown’s Bay even though it cost you a hundred dollars for supper.”

“We used to have box socials. The women all packed boxes, and then the men, they bid on them, you see. So if you bought this box, whoever brought the box, then you had to have supper with them.”

“I heard a lady passed away. I guess her husband and her were having supper, and she said she didn’t feel good and went in and laid down, and I guess when he went in to check on her, she was gone.”

“We had to go to the barn and work. You’ve probably done the same thing. You know, you eat your supper, out the door you go, and, you know, do your chores.”

“He would come down early, and Grandma would feed him, sometimes his family, didn’t matter what. But you pretty well had him for Sunday night supper, and then go over, and we’d walk across the field.”

“She’s got sheets out on the line, and he’s got smoke coming out of the stack. And he says, ‘Where are you going?’
‘Baby’s coming.’
‘When’ll you be back?’
‘Don’t know.’
‘What’ll I do? The supper, what’ll I do?’
‘Stir the pot.’
And off she goes.”