Heapmeal
adv
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adverb
- 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
More examples"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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