flockmeal en · ADV
Etymology
From Middle English flockmel, from Old English flocmǣlum (“in flocks”); equivalent to flock + -meal.
Meanings
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(archaic, not-comparable) In a flock; in flocks; in a herd.
And some Lords, Knights, and Gentlemen either for favour of the Queen, or for fear of themselves, assembled in sundry companies, and went flockmeal in harness: […]
c. 1519, Thomas More, History of King Richard III:So when they heard her voice they came thither flockmeal, and a great throng mingled of many kindreds was in the Hall, […]
1889, William Morris, A Tale of the House of the Wolfings and All the Kindreds of the Mark […], London: Reeves and Turner […], →OCLC:Where to, the countrie franklins flock-meale swarme, / And Jhon and Jone com marching arme in arme.
c. 1592–1593 (date written), Thomas Nash[e], “The Choosing of Valentines”, in John S[tephen] Farmer, editor, The Choise of Valentines: Or The Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo […], London: Privately printed for subscribers only, published 1899, →OCLC, page 4, lines 13–14: