gruel

«gruel» in Mova's school dictionary: A thin, watery food made by boiling oats or other grain… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (no plural)

meaning for a pupil

A thin, watery food made by boiling oats or other grain in water or milk. It was cheap food for poor people or the sick long ago. (old use) tree →

sense in the lessons

in tales, gruel is the meagre meal of a poor person or the food given to the sick

examples

• The orphan ate a bowl of gruel. tree →
• Make some gruel for the sick king. tree →
• The gruel was thin and cold. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «gruel» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.