inchmeal
adverb
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Pronunciation: /ˈɪnt͡ʃ.miːl/
adv
Etymology: From inch + -meal.
- Gradually, little by little (an inch at a time).
“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.”