breaking bread
breaking bread is the present participle and gerund of break bread.
Meaning of break bread
Verb
break bread (third-person singular simple present breaks bread, present participle breaking bread, simple past broke bread, past participle broken bread)
- To eat a meal, especially to eat a shared meal with friends, family, guests, etc.; to be in fellowship with others by eating with them.
- The knight swore he would not break bread in the castle again until he received reparation for the insult.
- To take part in Holy Communion.
- In baptism we make covenant; in communion we renew covenant week by week. . . . After offering prayers of thanksgiving, together we break bread and drink from the cup.1979, Ronald E. Osborn, The Faith We Affirm, →ISBN, page 61
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