mell

The "mell" is the last sheaf of corn left in the field when the harvest is gathered in.

Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems Frederic William Moorman 1895

And as the harvest was last concluded with several preparations of meal, or brought to be ready for the "mell," this term became, in a translated signification, to mean the last of other things; as, when a horse comes last in the race, they often say in the North, "He has got the mell."

Eugene Aram — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

And as the harvest was last concluded with several preparations of meal, or brought to be ready for the "mell," this term became, in a translated signification, to mean the last of other things; as, when a horse comes last in the race, they often say in the North, "He has got the mell."

Eugene Aram — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

She offered nothing that Sophia had been brought up to consider as love-worthy or estimable, for what good qualities she had must be accepted with their opposites, in an inconsequential pell-mell of wheat and tares.

"One could love her for the only sufficient reason that one chose to." 2010

Anyway, the BIG story here is that one honest woman was able to do what pack of university trustees and fellows and so on couldn't or wouldn't do: stop ND's pell-mell pursuit of cozy relations with the politically correct even when it means honoring abortionism's standard bearer.

Former Laetare Medalist to deliver address at Notre Dame's commencement 2009

She had become my good friend also and I had counseled her as to her pell mell, willy-nilly race toward being in love versus being in love with Fred.

Matthew Anderson: Repairing The Black-Jewish Rift Matthew Anderson 2011

She had become my good friend also and I had counseled her as to her pell mell, willy-nilly race toward being in love versus being in love with Fred.

Matthew Anderson: Repairing The Black-Jewish Rift Matthew Anderson 2011

She offered nothing that Sophia had been brought up to consider as love-worthy or estimable, for what good qualities she had must be accepted with their opposites, in an inconsequential pell-mell of wheat and tares.

Commonplace 2010

She had become my good friend also and I had counseled her as to her pell mell, willy-nilly race toward being in love versus being in love with Fred.

Matthew Anderson: Repairing The Black-Jewish Rift Matthew Anderson 2011

She offered nothing that Sophia had been brought up to consider as love-worthy or estimable, for what good qualities she had must be accepted with their opposites, in an inconsequential pell-mell of wheat and tares.

A Different Stripe: 2010