Leafmeal
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adverb
Quick meaning: Leafmeal is an adverb meaning (poetic or obsolete) One leaf at a time; leaf by leaf.
Meaning
(poetic or obsolete) One leaf at a time; leaf by leaf.
More Meanings
- A feed or meal, particularly for animals, consisting chiefly of decayed vegetable matter, especially leaves.
- Fallen or decaying leaves; leaf litter
Example Sentences
The Wilburtsons' pool, by contrast, is a swirl of sunk and sinking leafmeal, their yellow cat basking on the diving board.
Áh! ás the heart grows older / It will come to such sights colder / By and by, nor spare a sigh / Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; […]
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include limbmeal, limb-meal, foldward, looard, lesse, stoundmeal.
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