breadstuff vs meal

breadstuff

noun
  • Any of the ingredients for making bread, especially as commodities in trade and especially the principal ones, namely, flour/meal or the grain with which to mill it (such as wheat, oats, rye, or any other cereal grain). 

  • Bread or bread-like baked goods of any sort. 

meal

noun
  • The coarse-ground edible part of various grains often used to feed animals; flour or a coarser blend than flour. 

  • Food served or eaten as a repast. 

  • A speck or spot. 

  • A part; a fragment; a portion. 

  • Coordinate term: flour 

  • A break taken by a police officer in order to eat. 

  • Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity (as opposed to a snack). 

verb
  • To defile or taint. 

How often have the words breadstuff and meal occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )