Inchmeal

Quick meaning: Inchmeal is an adverb meaning (idiomatic) Gradually, little by little (an inch at a time).

Meaning

(idiomatic) Gradually, little by little (an inch at a time).

Example Sentences

I am a sanguinary murderer of time, and would kill him inchmeal just now.

All the infections that the sun sucks up / From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall, and make him / By inch-meal a disease!

Those who are not thus slippery in the tail, are light of finger; and of these the most pernicious are those who beggar you inchmeal.

He could be as patient as Death, that inchmeal stalker of his prey; he could be as ruthless as the sea, and incredibly generous upon occasion.

Word Forms

• inch-meal

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include inchingly, footmeal, piecemeal, stepmeal, gradually, step by step.

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