heapmeal

== English == === Alternative forms === heap-meal, heap-meale (obsolete) === 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 [...] ==== Usage notes ==== Often used in the phrase by heapmeal. ==== Translations ====