Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PIECE-MEAL
PIECE-MEAL, adv. [piece and Sax. mel, time. Qu.]
- In pieces; in fragments. On which it piecemeal broke. – Chapman.
- By pieces; by little and little in succession. Piecemeal they win this acre first, then that. – Pope.
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