flockmeal

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adverb

In a flock; in flocks; in a herd.

OriginMiddle English flockmel ← Old English flocmǣlum →
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Meanings

adverbflockmeal (not comparable)
  1. archaicnot comparableIn a flock; in flocks; in a herd.

    Where to, the countrie franklins flock-meale swarme, / And Jhon and Jone com marching arme in arme.

    c. 1592–1593 (date written), Thomas Nash[e], “The Choosing of Valentines”, in John S[tephen] Farmer, editor, The Choise of Valentines: Or The Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo […], London: Privately printed for subscribers only, published 1899, →OCLC, page 4, lines 13–14
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    And some Lords, Knights, and Gentlemen either for favour of the Queen, or for fear of themselves, assembled in sundry companies, and went flockmeal in harness: […]

    c. 1519, Thomas More, History of King Richard III

    So when they heard her voice they came thither flockmeal, and a great throng mingled of many kindreds was in the Hall, […]

    1889, William Morris, A Tale of the House of the Wolfings and All the Kindreds of the Mark […], London: Reeves and Turner […], →OCLC

Origin

  1. Old Englishflocmǣlum“in flocks”
  2. Middle Englishflockmel
  3. Englishflockmeal

From Middle English flockmel, from Old English flocmǣlum (“in flocks”); equivalent to flock + -meal.

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APA

flockmeal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flockmeal

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“flockmeal.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flockmeal. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “flockmeal,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flockmeal.

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