Heáp-mǽlum

According to the Old English Dictionary:

heáp-mǽlum

Add: I. in troops, in crowds :-- Heápmǽlum gregatim, Wrt. Voc. ii. 40, 17: catervatim, gregatim, multipliciter, 129, 51 : manipulatim (legiones, quae manipulatim testudinem balista quatere non cessant, Ald. 11, 18), 76, 42: 54, 50. Þá hǽþenan feóllon heápmǽlum ealle tó his cneówum, Hml. S. 31, 1033. II. where there is the idea of competition :-- Þyder þá samod ongunnon yrnan weras and wíf, æþele and unæþele, and hine heápmǽlum ongunnon tó hyra húsum laðian currere viri et feminae, nobiles atque ignobiles coeperunt, certatimque eum in suis rapere domibus conabantur, Gr. D. 200, 28. heap-mælum