A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; as, a mess of pottage; also, the food given to a beast at one time.
A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common; especially, persons in the military or naval service who eat at the same table; as, the wardroom mess.
To take meals with a mess; to belong to a mess; to eat (with others); as, I mess with the wardroom officers.
Any number of men who eat or lodge together.
Part of the ship's company that eats together, (such as the officers' mess) and, by extension, the place where they eat. On passenger liners, the passengers may still eat in dining rooms, but the crew eats in the mess. from late Latin missum, that which is put on a table.
Officers and crew have a dining room and kitchen separate from the passenger dining room and kitchen. Crew mess is generally open from about 6:30 am to 11:00 pm to accommodate the schedules of every department. Food is generally not as fancy as that on the passenger menu but this depends on the crew chef.
Men grouped for feeding purposes. The "Officer's Mess" was the wardroom. Groups of eight or so seamen were grouped as a "mess", and one designated the "mess cook". At mealtimes, the mess cook would fetch the food for his mess.
soft semiliquid food; "a mess of porridge"
a meal eaten by service personnel
a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax
make a mess of or create disorder in; "He messed up his room"
a group of fifteen men of all ages who eat and fight together in wars, and they do this throughout their lives
a standard measurement in our kitchen
(short for Message to User Office) On-line command to an Argos processing center. Lets you send a message to the User Office at any time during a session.
the dining room, normally one for the crew and one for the officers.
to eat; group of crew members eating together; the compartment or location for the dining of a select group aboard ship, such as the CPO mess.
a group of military personnel who eat together regularly. musquet
Term that refers to the dining area for the crew and officers. It is generally separate from that of the passengers and not nearly as fancy.
A term indicative of food, more indicative of the way shipboard galleys usually look.
Naval The unit of community life as lived in one of HM ships; hence, the place where each unit lives and eats; hence also, the naval verb for both inhabiting and eating. The context must show whether living or eating is referred to.
Location on ship for eating.
A mess is the place where military personnel socialise, eat and (in some cases) live. In some societies this military usage has extended to other disciplined services eateries such as civilian fire fighting and police forces.