"stepmeal" meaning in English

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        "3": "stæpmǣlum",
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English *stepmele, *stapmele, from Old English stæpmǣlum (“step by step; gradually, by degrees”), equivalent to step + -meal.",
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          "text": "He who would see it with his mind's eye must begin by very little, and then by little and little climb nigher and nigher, and stepmeal, as if he were climbing on a ladder, and would be up on some sea'cliff; […]",
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          "ref": "1967 July 29 [1967 May 23], The Christian Science Monitor, “Athens Imitates Communism”, in Balkania, volume I, number 3, United States: Balkania Publishing Company, page 32:",
          "text": "One does not need to underline how, stepmeal (SIC), all this imitates Communist practice.\nThis would be damaging enough. But the new rightist government has gone much further. It has laid strict control on the Greek Orthodox Church.",
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        "One step at a time; step by step; gradually; by degrees."
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          "step by step"
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          "gradually",
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          "by degrees",
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        "(uncommon) One step at a time; step by step; gradually; by degrees."
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        "(uncommon) One step at a time; step by step; gradually; by degrees."
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