styccemælum

• stiċċemǣlum

styċċe +‎ -mǣlum

• IPA^(key): /ˈstyt.t͡ʃeˌmæː.lum/

styċċemǣlum

1. piece by piece
   • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans

     ⁊ ēac þætte þrīe wulfas on ānre niht brōhton ānes dēades monnes līchoman binnan þā burg, ⁊ hiene þær siþþan styċċemælum tōbrugdon, oþ þā men onwōcan, ⁊ ūt urnon, ⁊ hīe siþþan aweġ flugon.

     And on one night, three wolves brought the body of a dead man into the city, and then tore it to pieces bit by bit, until the people awoke and ran out, and they ran away.

• Middle English: *sticchemele
  • English: stitchmeal

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “styccemǽlum”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.