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Too-meill, n. [To- prefix¹ and Mele n.¹] Meal given in addition. Cf. Tooboot n. and, in the later dial., to-bread ‘an extra loaf … given gratis by way of discount' (SND s.v. Tae adv. 2 (1)). — 1675 Cunningham Diary 6.
My proportion of the boll of too meill … comes to … lesse than the third part of a boll