"limbmeal" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "Middle English lymmele",
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        "2": "limmel"
      },
      "expansion": "limmel",
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        "3": "limmǣlum",
        "t": "limbmeal, limb by limb"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English limmǣlum (“limbmeal, limb by limb”)",
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        "2": "limb",
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English lymmele, limmel, from Old English limmǣlum (“limbmeal, limb by limb”); equivalent to limb + -meal.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1677, Edward Bury, England’s Bane, or, The Deadly Danger of Drunkenness, London: Thomas Parkhurst, page 16",
          "text": "[…] they deal with Christ as a Kennel of Hounds do with an Hare, pluck him to pieces, wound and tear him, what in them lies, limb meal, neither his Blood, nor his Wounds, nor his Head, nor his Heart, nor any other part shall escape, and they even dare Vengeance it self […]",
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        },
        {
          "text": "1890, John Payne (translator), The Novels of Matteo Bandello Bishop of Agen, London: The Villon Society, Volume 5, Part 3, Story 24, pp. 323-324,\nSuch was the end of that vile and wicked woman, worthy of a more cruel death and to be torn of dogs limbmeal."
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "Into pieces; limb from limb."
      ],
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        "(archaic) Into pieces; limb from limb."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "limb-meal"
        },
        {
          "word": "limb meal"
        }
      ],
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        "archaic",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "limbmeal"
}

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    {
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      "expansion": "limmel",
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English lymmele, limmel, from Old English limmǣlum (“limbmeal, limb by limb”); equivalent to limb + -meal.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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          "ref": "1677, Edward Bury, England’s Bane, or, The Deadly Danger of Drunkenness, London: Thomas Parkhurst, page 16",
          "text": "[…] they deal with Christ as a Kennel of Hounds do with an Hare, pluck him to pieces, wound and tear him, what in them lies, limb meal, neither his Blood, nor his Wounds, nor his Head, nor his Heart, nor any other part shall escape, and they even dare Vengeance it self […]",
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          "text": "1890, John Payne (translator), The Novels of Matteo Bandello Bishop of Agen, London: The Villon Society, Volume 5, Part 3, Story 24, pp. 323-324,\nSuch was the end of that vile and wicked woman, worthy of a more cruel death and to be torn of dogs limbmeal."
        }
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        "Into pieces; limb from limb."
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        "(archaic) Into pieces; limb from limb."
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    {
      "word": "limb-meal"
    },
    {
      "word": "limb meal"
    }
  ],
  "word": "limbmeal"
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