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Webster 1913 Edition

adv.

[F.

pêle-mêle

, prob. fr.

pelle

a shovel +

mêler

to mix, as when different kinds of grain are heaped up and mixed with a shovel. See

shovel,

In utter confusion; with confused violence.

“Men, horses, chariots, crowded pellmell.”

Milton.

See also: pell-mell

pellmell

pellmell ‎(not comparable)