mess call

noun

, Military.

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The troop broke ranks and dispersed, to lounge and gossip until mess-call.

Of course I did not know an "assembly" from a mess call, but the others ran for the parade ground and so I followed.

Just before the noon mess call Captain Cortland, in passing, called out to Hal.

Before the mess call sounded Terry always visited the different staterooms.

The throaty bugles blew the Mess-call that has a long legend behind it.

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