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inch-meal

inch-meal is the alternative form of inchmeal.

Meaning of inchmeal

Adverb

inchmeal (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) Gradually, little by little (an inch at a time).
    • All the infections that the sun sucks up / From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall, and make him / By inch-meal a disease!1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published...

Questions about inch-meal

What is inch-meal the alternative form of?
Inch-meal is the alternative form of inchmeal.

Words near inch-meal in the dictionary

  1. inch resting
  2. inch stuff
  3. inch tracker
  4. inch trackers
  5. inch up
  6. inch-meal
  7. inch-perfect
  8. inchamber
  9. inchambered
  10. inchambering
  11. inchambers

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