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Inchmeal

//ˈɪnt͡ʃ.miːl// adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    Gradually, little by little (an inch at a time). idiomatic, not-comparable

    "All the infections that the sun sucks up / From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall, and make him / By inch-meal a disease!"

Etymology

From inch + -meal.

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