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pellmell

pellmell


  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pall-mall  \Pall`-mall"\,  n.  [OF.  palemail  It  pallamagio  palla 
  a  ball  (of  German  origin,  akin  to  E.  ball)  +  magio  hammer, 
  fr  L.  malleus.  See  lst  {Ball},  and  {Mall}  a  beetle.] 
  A  game  formerly  common  in  England,  in  which  a  wooden  ball  was 
  driven  with  a  mallet  through  an  elevated  hoop  or  ring  of 
  iron.  The  name  was  also  given  to  the  mallet  used  to  the 
  place  where  the  game  was  played,  and  to  the  street,  in 
  London,  still  called  Pall  Mall.  [Written  also  {pail-mail}  and 
  {pell-mell}.]  --Sir  K.  Digby  Evelyn. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pell-mell  \Pell`-mell"\,  n. 
  See  {Pall-mall}. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pellmell  \Pell`mell"\,  adv  [F.  p[^e]le-m[^e]le,  prob.  fr  pelle 
  a  shovel  +  m[^e]ler  to  mix,  as  when  different  kinds  of  grain 
  are  heaped  up  and  mixed  with  a  shovel.  See  {Pell}  shovel, 
  {Medley}.] 
  In  utter  confusion;  with  confused  violence.  ``Men,  horses, 
  chariots,  crowded  pellmell.''  --Milton. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  pell-mell 
  adj  :  with  undue  hurry  and  confusion;  "a  helter-skelter  kind  of 
  existence  with  never  a  pause";  "a  pell-mell  dash  for 
  the  train"  [syn:  {helter-skelter}] 
  adv  :  in  a  wild  or  reckless  manner;  "dashing  harum-scarum  all  over 
  the  place";  "running  pell-mell  up  the  stairs"  [syn:  {harum-scarum}]