ENGLISH DICTIONARY

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

  1. A feed or meal, particularly for animals, consisting chiefly of decayed vegetable matter, especially leaves.
  2. 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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