Loam vs Marl - What's the difference?
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A type of soil; an earthy mixture of sand, silt and clay, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due.
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(metalworking) A mixture of sand, clay, and other materials, used in making moulds for large castings, often without a pattern.
A mixed earthy substance, consisting of carbonate of lime, clay, and possibly sand, in very variable proportions, and accordingly designated as calcareous, clayey, or sandy.
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To cover, as part of a rope, with marline, marking a peculiar hitch at each turn to prevent unwinding.
As nouns the difference between loam and marl
is that loam is a type of soil; an earthy mixture of sand, silt and clay, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due while marl is a mixed earthy substance, consisting of carbonate of lime, clay, and possibly sand, in very variable proportions, and accordingly designated as calcareous, clayey, or sandy.As verbs the difference between loam and marl
is that loam is to cover, smear, or fill with loam while marl is to cover, as part of a rope, with marline, marking a peculiar hitch at each turn to prevent unwinding.loam
English
(wikipedia loam)Noun
- Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander
- returneth to dust, the dust is earth, of earth we make
- loam', and of why that ' loam whereto he was converted
- might they not stop a beer-barrel?
