Meaning of inchmeal | Babel Free

Definitions

Gradually, little by little (an inch at a time).

idiomatic, not-comparable

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Examples

“All the infections that the sun sucks up / From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall⟳, and make⟳ him / By inch-meal a disease!”

“Those who are not thus slippery in the tail, are light⟳ of finger; and of these the most pernicious are those who beggar you inchmeal.”

“I am a sanguinary murderer of time, and would kill⟳ him inchmeal just now.”

“He could be as patient as Death, that inchmeal stalker of his prey; he could be as ruthless as the sea, and incredibly generous upon occasion.”

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