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piecemeal


  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Piecemeal  \Piece"meal`\,  adv  [OE.  pecemele  pece  a  piece  +  AS 
  m?lum,  dat.  pl  of  m?l  part  See  {Meal}  a  portion.] 
  1.  In  pieces;  in  parts  or  fragments.  ``On  which  it  piecemeal 
  brake.''  --Chapman. 
 
  The  beasts  will  tear  thee  piecemeal.  --Tennyson. 
 
  2.  Piece  by  piece;  by  little  and  little  in  succession. 
 
  Piecemeal  they  win,  this  acre  first  than  that 
  --Pope. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Piecemeal  \Piece"meal`\,  a. 
  Made  up  of  parts  or  pieces;  single;  separate.  ``These 
  piecemeal  guilts.''  --Gov.  of  Tongue. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Piecemeal  \Piece"meal`\,  n. 
  A  fragment;  a  scrap.  --R.  Vaughan. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  piecemeal 
  adj  :  one  thing  at  a  time  [syn:  {bit-by-bit},  {in  small  stages},  {step-by-step}, 
  {stepwise}] 
  adv  :  a  little  bit  at  a  time;  "the  research  structure  has 
  developed  piecemeal"  [syn:  {little  by  little},  {bit  by 
  bit},  {in  stages}] 




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