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inchmeal
adverb
[ ˈɪntʃmiːl ]
• by inches; little by little.
• "inchmeal, he advanced up the slope"
Origin:
mid 16th century: from inch1 + -meal from Old English mǣlum, in the sense ‘measure, quantity taken at one time’.