PIECEMEAL

adv. a. n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
adv.

In pieces; in parts or fragments. "On which it piecemeal brake." Chapman. The beasts will tear thee piecemeal. Tennyson.

2.
adv.

Piece by piece; by little and little in succession. Piecemeal they win, this acre first, than that. Pope.

3.
a.

Made up of parts or pieces; single; separate. "These piecemeal guilts." Gov. of Tongue.

4.
n.

A fragment; a scrap. R. Vaughan.

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