heapmeal

H4E1A1P3M3E1A1L1

adverb

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

Scrabble 15

Meanings

adverbheapmeal (comparative more heapmeal, superlative most heapmeal)

comparative more heapmeal · superlative most heapmeal · alternative obsolete heap-meal · alternative obsolete heap-meale

  1. rarelargely obsoleteIn heaps, or heap by heap; in large quantities or numbers.

    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; [...]

    1906, Charles Montagu Doughty, The dawn in Britain
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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 …

    1902, Old South Church (Boston, Mass.), Old South leaflets

    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.

    1939, Martin Gilkes, Tribute to England: an anthology

Origin

  1. Old Englishhēapmǣlum“in heaps, heapmeal”
  2. Middle English*hepemele
  3. Englishheapmeal

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

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Translations

Finnish kasapäin, kasoittain
  • kasapäinin heaps
  • kasoittainin heaps
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APA

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Chicago

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