limbmeal
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "O, that I had her here, to tear her limb-meal!"
- "[…] they deal with Christ as a Kennel of Hounds do with an Hare, pluck him to pieces, wound and tear him, what in them lies, limb meal, neither his Blood, nor his Wounds, nor his Head, nor his Heart, nor any other part shall escape, and they even dare Vengeance it self […]"
- "1890, John Payne (translator), The Novels of Matteo Bandello Bishop of Agen, London: The Villon Society, Volume 5, Part 3, Story 24, pp. 323-324, Such was the end of that vile and wicked woman, worthy of a more cruel death and to be torn of dogs limbmeal."
Etymology
From Middle English lymmele, limmel, from Old English limmǣlum (“limbmeal, limb by limb”); equivalent to limb + -meal.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: lymmele, limmǣlum
Usage
Inflected Forms
limb-meal (alternative)
limb meal (alternative)