"stepmeal" meaning in English

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        "3": "*stepmele"
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      "expansion": "Middle English *stepmele",
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        "2": "*stapmele"
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      "expansion": "*stapmele",
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    {
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        "3": "stæpmǣlum",
        "t": "step by step; gradually, by degrees"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English stæpmǣlum (“step by step; gradually, by degrees”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "step",
        "3": "-meal"
      },
      "expansion": "step + -meal",
      "name": "af"
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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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      "expansion": "stepmeal (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adv"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1852, Alfred (King of England), The whole works of King Alfred the Great",
          "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; […]"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1967, Balkania",
          "text": "One does not need to underline how, stepmeal, all this imitates Communist practice. This would be damaging enough. But the new rightist government has gone much further. It has laid strict control on the Greek Orthodox Church."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One step at a time; step by step; gradually; by degrees."
      ],
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        [
          "step by step",
          "step by step"
        ],
        [
          "gradually",
          "gradually"
        ],
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          "by degrees",
          "by degrees"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
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    }
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  "word": "stepmeal"
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        "3": "*stepmele"
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      "expansion": "Middle English *stepmele",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "*stapmele"
      },
      "expansion": "*stapmele",
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "stæpmǣlum",
        "t": "step by step; gradually, by degrees"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English stæpmǣlum (“step by step; gradually, by degrees”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "step",
        "3": "-meal"
      },
      "expansion": "step + -meal",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "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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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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        "English terms inherited from Old English",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1852, Alfred (King of England), The whole works of King Alfred the Great",
          "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; […]"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1967, Balkania",
          "text": "One does not need to underline how, stepmeal, all this imitates Communist practice. This would be damaging enough. But the new rightist government has gone much further. It has laid strict control on the Greek Orthodox Church."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One step at a time; step by step; gradually; by degrees."
      ],
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        [
          "step by step",
          "step by step"
        ],
        [
          "gradually",
          "gradually"
        ],
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          "by degrees",
          "by degrees"
        ]
      ],
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  "word": "stepmeal"
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