Heapmeal

adv

adv ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In heaps, or heap by heap; in large quantities or numbers. rare

    "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 …"

Example

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"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 …"

Etymology

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

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