All 4 Uses

meager
in
Kit's Wilderness
(Edited)

Only one of the candles still burned, a cold, meager light.
p. 13.5 *

meager = less than desired
They had a meager fire, built from logs he'd helped his father to wrench out of the ice.
p. 28.4

meager = small
He worked all morning, until the sun had reached its meager limit.
p. 32.2

meager = less than desired
Then they came upon a hollow in the rocks, a patch of scrubby earth where two deer nibbled at the meager grass.
p. 40.5

meager = lacking in quantity or quality

Definitions:

(1) (meager)
lacking in quantity or quality
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Much more rarely, meager can describe someone as very thin.