Pĕll-mĕll', adv.

adv. [Fr. pèle-mèle, probably from pelle, a shovel, and mêler, to mix, as when different kinds of grain are heaped up and mixed with a shovel.] In utter confusion; with disorderly mixture; with confused violence.

The battle was a confused heap, the ground unequal, men, horses, chariots crowded pell-mell. Milton.