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limb-meal, adv. Obs. exc. arch. and dial.|ˈlɪmmiːl|
Forms: see limb n.1; also 3 -mele, -meel(e, 5–7 -meale, 9 dial. limb-mull, limmel.
[OE. limmǽlum: see limb n.1 and -meal.]
Limb from limb, limb by limb; piecemeal.
c1050Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 440/36 Membratim, limmælum. c1205Lay. 25618 He þer þene beore of-sloh, and hine lim⁓mele [c 1275 leome-mele] to-droh. a1225Juliana 79 Þer ase wilde deor limmel to luken ham. c1290Beket 1779 in S. Eng. Leg., Þei ich beo drawe lime mele. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) V. 281 Maximus..was alto hakked..and i-þrowe lyme meele into Tyber. 1470–85Malory Arthur viii. xxxvii. 330 He was drawen lymme meale. 1590T. Fenne Frutes 41 Readie to teare in peeces, and plucke lim-meale the bodie of the bloudie tyrant. 1611Shakes. Cymb. ii. iv. 147 O that I had her heere, to teare her Limb-meale. a1680Butler Rem. (1759) II. 399 Tears Cards Limb-meal without Regard of Age, Sex, or Quality, and breaks the Bones of Dice. 1709tr. P. de Cieza's Trav. 78 Putting him to exquisite Torments and tearing his Body Limb-meal. 1860T. Martin Horace 309 Up with their nails the earth they threw, Then limb-meal tore a coal-black ewe. 1894S.E. Worcs. Gloss., Limmel.
Hence † limbmeally adv., in same sense.
1569T. Underdown Ovid agst. Ibis L iij b, He was..torne limmeally, that is to say, each peece from other. |