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heapmeal

adv

Etymology

From Middle English *hepemele, from Old English hēapmǣlum (“in heaps, heapmeal”), equivalent to heap + -meal.

  1. inherited from hēapmǣlum — “in heaps, heapmeal”
  2. inherited from *hepemele✻

Definitions

  1. In heaps, or heap by heap

    In heaps, or heap by heap; in large quantities or numbers.

    • There was then no delay, so that greater hosts came heap-meal from the nations which we mentioned before ; and the folk which came hither began to wax and spread so much that they were a great terror to the same inhabitants of the land …
    • Long dures, mongst the forefighters, of both parts, Dread strife, before the wall, for Tola's corse. Almains and Rhaetians, heapmeal, fall thereon, Till the day's end; [...]
    • Men gaze on Caradoc's helm, of lucid steel, Whose crest that dragon of his royal house; And golden belt of strength, and tremble Romans: And the king's glaive, which heapmeal hath slain soldiers.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA