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Grammar : Adj
Spell : pees-meel
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpisˌmil

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Origin :
  • c.1300 (originally two words), from piece (n.) + Old English mælum "at a time," dative plural of mæl "appointed time, food served" (see meal (n.1)). The second element once was more commonly used, e.g. Old English styccemælum "bit by bit," gearmælum "year by year." One-word form from 15c.
  • adj bit by bit
Example sentences :
  • Divide it and try to sell it piecemeal, and do not drown yourself.
  • Extract from : « Memoirs Of The Court Of Marie Antoinette, Queen Of France, Complete » by Madame Campan
  • Sometimes the limbs drop off, piecemeal or in their entirety.
  • Extract from : « The Leper in England: with some account of English lazar-houses » by Robert Charles Hope
  • The important point is to see that the process of socialization must be piecemeal and gradual.
  • Extract from : « Socialism » by John Spargo
  • She might as well make the noise all at once as to make it piecemeal.
  • Extract from : « The Wrong Woman » by Charles D. Stewart
  • He kept his word, and this piecemeal business of freeing the prisoners began.
  • Extract from : « Chatterbox, 1905. » by Various
  • Piecemeal, Toddles wouldn't convey anything to you to speak of.
  • Extract from : « The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories » by Various
  • We passed a ruined church with its old turrets dropping by piecemeal.
  • Extract from : « The Scalp Hunters » by Mayne Reid
  • In an instant it was skinned, cut up, and carried off piecemeal.
  • Extract from : « Marmaduke Merry » by William H. G. Kingston
  • All that could be sold has been sold, piecemeal, by the heirs.
  • Extract from : « The Confessions of Arsne Lupin » by Maurice Leblanc
  • They have examined me in piecemeal, not in statesmanlike fashion.
  • Extract from : « The Life of John of Barneveld, 1614-23, Volume II. » by John Lothrop Motley
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