Heapmeal

Alternative forms

• heap-meal, heap-meale

Origin

From , from , equivalent to .

Full definition of heapmeal

Adverb

1. (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.