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footmeal

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Adv — (archaic) Gradually, a small amount at a time.

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Etymology

From Middle English footmele, fotmelen, from Old English fōtmǣlum (“step by step, by degrees”), dative plural of Old English fōtmǣl (“a foot-measure, one foot”), equivalent to foot + -meal.

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