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flockmeal

adverb

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adv

Etymology: From Middle English flockmel, from Old English flocmǣlum (“in flocks”); equivalent to flock + -meal.

  1. In a flock; in flocks; in a herd.

    And some Lords, Knights, and Gentlemen either for favour of the Queen, or for fear of themselves, assembled in sundry companies, and went flockmeal in harness: […]

    Where to, the countrie franklins flock-meale swarme, / And Jhon and Jone com marching arme in arme.