Definitions
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- adverb One
leaf at atime ; leaf by leaf. - noun A
feed ormeal , particularly for animals, consisting chiefly of decayed vegetable matter, especially leaves.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Doug park, enjoying the "season of mists" and looking at the "worlds of wanwood" lying leafmeal, and taking lots of backlit shots of maple leaves.
Saturday Walk intertext 2005
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Besides, her feet were bare, and the road, so smooth to the tires of a car or the soles of Ivan's American running shoes, would be rough to feet more accustomed to meadows or the leafmeal forest floor.
Enchantment Card, Orson Scott 1999
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Besides, her feet were bare, and the road, so smooth to the tires of a car or the soles of Ivan's American running shoes, would be rough to feet more accustomed to meadows or the leafmeal forest floor.
Enchantment Card, Orson Scott 1999
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Yax scrabbled around in the leafmeal until he found the acrylic eye.
Pastwatch, the Redemtion of Christopher Columbus Card, Orson Scott 1996
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He sighed, knelt in the soft leafmeal of the shadowed clearing, and reached for the topical anesthetic.
Pastwatch, the Redemtion of Christopher Columbus Card, Orson Scott 1996
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After sun-drying, crush or grind the leaves and small stems to make a leafmeal which you can feed directly or mix with other feeds.
Chapter 5 1994
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Branches are then shaken over mats and leafmeal gathered and sacked.
Chapter 11 1985
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Calliandra leafmeal was also successfully used in chicken feed in amounts up to 5 percent.
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Selected Poetry illustrates leafmeal with a quotation from Hopkins 'Journal: Wonderful
GotPoetry.com News 2008
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Selected Poetry illustrates leafmeal with a quotation from Hopkins 'Journal: Wonderful
GotPoetry.com News 2008
acantha commented on the word leafmeal
...as the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by, nor spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;
And yet you will weep know why.
smells like fall
July 2, 2008