Hypertext Webster Gateway: "messmate"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Messmate \Mess"mate`\, n.
An associate in a mess.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
messmate
n : an associate with whom you share meals in the same mess (as
on a ship)
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