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leafmeal

adv, noun — 3 senses

leafmeal

adv

Etymology From leaf + -meal.

1

Obsolete, Poetic One leaf at a time; leaf by leaf.

  • Áh! ás the heart grows older / It will come to such sights colder / By and by, nor spare a sigh / Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; […]1880, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Spring and Fall: To a Young Child”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, →OCLC, page 51:

leafmeal

noun

Etymology From leaf + meal, modelled after leafmould.

1

A feed or meal, particularly for animals, consisting chiefly of decayed vegetable matter, especially leaves.

2

Fallen or decaying leaves; leaf litter

  • The Wilburtsons' pool, by contrast, is a swirl of sunk and sinking leafmeal, their yellow cat basking on the diving board.2006, Dwight Yates, Bring Everybody, page 103:

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