: a person with whom one regularly takes mess (as on a ship)
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But the bacteria found inside those that received messmate microbes changed a lot.
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As Rigg, an old friend of mine, later told me, Liebling put himself at ease during the pause, most notably as a messmate.
—Roger Angell, The New Yorker, 6 June 2019
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BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2019
As Rigg, an old friend of mine, later told me, Liebling put himself at ease during the pause, most notably as a messmate.
—Roger Angell, The New Yorker, 6 June 2019
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messmate
noun
mess·mate
ˈmes-ˌmāt 
: a member of a mess (as on a ship)
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