"heapmeal" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1902, Old South Church (Boston, Mass.), Old South leaflets",
          "text": "There was then no delay, so that greater hosts came heap-meal from the nations which we mentioned before ; and the folk which came hither began to wax and spread so much that they were a great terror to the same inhabitants of the land …"
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          "ref": "1906, Charles Montagu Doughty, The dawn in Britain:",
          "text": "Long dures, mongst the forefighters, of both parts, Dread strife, before the wall, for Tola's corse. Almains and Rhaetians, heapmeal, fall thereon, Till the day's end; [...]",
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          "ref": "1939, Martin Gilkes, Tribute to England: an anthology:",
          "text": "Men gaze on Caradoc's helm, of lucid steel, Whose crest that dragon of his royal house; And golden belt of strength, and tremble Romans: And the king's glaive, which heapmeal hath slain soldiers.",
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        "In heaps, or heap by heap; in large quantities or numbers."
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        "(rare, largely obsolete) In heaps, or heap by heap; in large quantities or numbers."
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          "sense": "in heaps",
          "word": "kasapäin"
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          "code": "fi",
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          "sense": "in heaps",
          "word": "kasoittain"
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