heapmeal

adv

Etymology: From Middle English *hepemele, from Old English hēapmǣlum (“in heaps, heapmeal”), equivalent to heap + -meal.

1. In heaps, or heap by heap; in large quantities or numbers.

   “There was then no delay, so that greater hosts came heap-meal from the nations which we mentioned before ; and the folk which came hither began to wax and spread so much that they were a great terror to the same inhabitants of the land …”

   “Long dures, mongst the forefighters, of both parts, Dread strife, before the wall, for Tola's corse. Almains and Rhaetians, heapmeal, fall thereon, Till the day's end; [...]”