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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of meal.

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Examples

  • The hole was only a quarter of an inch in diameter, but the head of the fuze was hollowed out like a cup, and "mealed" (fine) powder, moistened with "spirits of wine"

    Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America Albert Manucy

  • The landlord saw that something must be done, and he got them rooms, at a smaller house, and 'mealed' them (as it used to be called at Mt. Desert) in his own.

    Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life) William Dean Howells 1878

  • The landlord saw that something must be done, and he got them rooms, at a smaller house, and 'mealed' them (as it used to be called at Mt. Desert) in his own.

    Literature and Life (Complete) William Dean Howells 1878

  • We also get almost every answer piece mealed to us.

    The Tail Section » Decoding the Lost Decline… A.K.A More free market research for ABC 2007

  • No. It's the White House that's piece-mealed this war.

    CNN Transcript May 10, 2007 2007

  • Under the paving you put 10 centimeter with mealed granit…

    GREEN PAVING SOLUTION: Salvaverde | Inhabitat 2006

  • "Canvas bales filled with saltpetre, mealed powder, sulphur, resin and oil" - Baird listed the ingredients with an indecent relish - -and once the fuses are lit those boats will be pure flames in three minutes.

    Sharpe's Prey Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2001

  • The bomb, a thirteen-inch black ball, just lay there, but the fuse was still alive, burning down through the last inch of saltpetre, sulphur and mealed powder until the spark met the charge and the bomb ripped the top story apart just as the other bombs of the first salvo came crashing down into the nearby streets.

    Sharpe's Prey Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2001

  • A quill filled with a finely mealed powder stuck from the cannon's touch-hole, and a portfire smoked and fizzed inside a protective barrel at the back of the gunpit.

    Sharpe's Devil Cornwell, Bernard 1992

  • A quill filled with a finely mealed powder stuck from the cannon's touch-hole, and a portfire smoked and fizzed inside a protective barrel at the back of the gunpit.

    Sharpe's Devil Cornwell, Bernard 1992

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