heapmeal
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In heaps, or heap by heap; in large quantities or numbers.
Example Sentences
- "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 …"
- "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; [...]"
- "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."
Etymology
From Middle English *hepemele, from Old English hēapmǣlum (“in heaps, heapmeal”), equivalent to heap + -meal.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *hepemele, hēapmǣlum
Inflected Forms
more heapmeal (comparative)
most heapmeal (superlative)
heap-meal (alternative, obsolete)
heap-meale (alternative, obsolete)