Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb Little by little; gradually.
from The Century Dictionary.
- By inches; inch by inch: often with by preceding.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Little by little; gradually.
- noun A piece an inch long.
- noun by small degrees; by inches.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb
gradually ,little by little (an inch at a time)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The breeze took us past and the pilot yanked the blast handle, giving us a final inchmeal rise.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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The breeze took us past and the pilot yanked the blast handle, giving us a final inchmeal rise.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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The breeze took us past and the pilot yanked the blast handle, giving us a final inchmeal rise.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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I make these points not to defend the media, which can hardly be criticized enough for their own health, but to raise yet again the question of why the Clintons from beginning to end chose the inchmeal tactics of trench warfare to defend themselves when they came under fire, throwing up a smokescreen of fibs and disclosing as little as possible.
In Clinton's Court Lelyveld, Joseph 2003
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He could be as patient as Death, that inchmeal stalker of his prey; he could be as ruthless as the sea, and incredibly generous upon occasion.
The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay Maurice Hewlett 1892
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Pakistan in particular, if the inchmeal approach of the Taliban toward the capital is not halted, will need to be robustly confronted.
Indymedia Ireland 2009
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Others, such as Shakespeare's inchmeal, still occasionally used, seem to have come into use in the 16th century: "unciatim inche by inche, inchemeale" (Cooper, 1573).
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I am a sanguinary murderer of time, that would kill him inchmeal just now. "
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays Charles Lamb 1804
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