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Etymology
From Middle English *hepemele, from Old English hēapmǣlum (“in heaps, heapmeal”), equivalent to heap + -meal.
Adverb
heapmeal (comparative more heapmeal, superlative most heapmeal)
- (rare, largely obsolete) In heaps, or heap by heap; in large quantities or numbers.
- 1902, Old South Church (Boston, Mass.), Old South leaflets:
- 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
1906, Charles Montagu Doughty, The dawn in Britain: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; [...]
1939, Martin Gilkes, Tribute to England: an anthology: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.
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