Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Pellmell

Pellmell , adverb

[French pêle-mêle, prob. from pelle a shovel + mêler to mix, as when different kinds of grain are heaped up and mixed with a shovel. See Pell shovel, Medley.]

In utter confusion; with confused violence.
Men, horses, chariots, crowded pellmell. — Milton