nooning

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Even here the grama grass was not entirely missing, and a nooning of two hours was taken to let the animals crop as much of it as they could find.

From Bring Me His Ears by Mulford, Clarence E.

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

Why, is this where you spend your nooning, Cloud?

From Cloudy Jewel by Hill, Grace Livingston

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)

Every street is as packed as lower Fifth Avenue used to be when the operatives came out of the big shops for their nooning.

From The Daughter of the Storage And Other Things in Prose and Verse by Howells, William Dean