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Definition of Pell-mell
1. Adverb. In a wild or reckless manner. "Running pell-mell up the stairs"
2. Adjective. With undue hurry and confusion. "A pell-mell dash for the train"
Definition of Pell-mell
1. Adjective. Hasty, uncontrolled. ¹
2. Adverb. In haste, uncontrolledly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pell-mell
Literary usage of Pell-mell
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Civil War in Song and Story, 1860-1865 by Frank Moore (1889)
"... who, ! command ; not an officer or private of the old praying, drove Banks
pell-mell out of the Valley Stonewall Brigade but sbut down " tho soldier's ..."
2. The Beginnings of Modern Europe (1250-1450) by Ephraim Emerton (1917)
"together with his, and charged pell-mell into the English ranks. The old king,
true type of the mediaeval fighting ruler, had his desire. ..."
3. The English Illustrated Magazine (1897)
"children's bricks emptied pell-mell on the floor. Large crimson patches flecked
the surface of the snow-covered field, and already the black, ghostly forms ..."
4. The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford, Lord Keeper of by Roger North (1826)
"... falling thus pell-mell into affairs of trade; Ms lord- D mended by and
perceiving, by his conversation, that he had intent in it an uncommon penetration ..."
5. Principles and Practice of Harbour Construction by William Shield (1895)
"... breakwater—Causes of failure—Mounds of pell-mell blocks on rubble bases—Mounds
of rubble, faced and capped with pell-mell blocks—Mounds of pell-mell ..."
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