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inchingly en · ADV

Etymology

From inching + -ly.

Meanings

1. An inch at a time; very slowly and gradually.
   • […]a new, more active world, dominated by animals that move around, even if as inchingly as snails, urchins and crabs. 2010, Nick Lane, Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution, page 146:
   • When the new driveway was completed and cars and trucks could crawl inchingly over it, I lost my patience with moon-science. 1995, Henry Giles, Janice Holt Giles, A little better than plumb: the biography of a house, page 141:

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