Meaning of pell-mell | Babel Free

Definitions

Hasty and uncontrolled.

Equivalents

Examples

“Nor moody Beggars, ſtaruing for a time / Of pell-mell hauocke, and confusion.”

“These present the appearance of masses of water-worn gravel, mixed in the most pell mell confusion, the boulders being often of very large size; but I observed no striae, nor any of the blue tenacious clay of the Till, which it so much resembled.”

“The whole district presents the most pell-mell throwing together imaginable.”

“The pell mell, hell for leather traffic of Lagos was more pell mell, hell for leather than ever.”

“The cattle are less disciplined, more pell-mell, heavy-footed, their hooves stamping the ground to mud in several places.”

“China’s pell-mell, brisk urbanization has in some ways made the challenge harder to face.”

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