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The Night Watch was housed in an air-raid shelter in the marl quarry of St. Pietersberg in Maastricht. In 1945 she was brought back to Amsterdam in her war pack on the inland waterway vessel 'From god given'. Here the ship with children with a flag.
The Night Watch was housed in an air-raid shelter in the marl quarry of St. Pietersberg in Maastricht. In 1945 she was brought back to Amsterdam in her war pack on the inland waterway vessel 'From god given'. Here the ship with children with a flag.
  1. (n) marl
    a loose and crumbling earthy deposit consisting mainly of calcite or dolomite; used as a fertilizer for soils deficient in lime
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Marl
    A mixed earthy substance, consisting of carbonate of lime, clay, and sand, in very variable proportions, and accordingly designated as calcareous, clayey, or sandy. See Greensand.
  2. Marl
    (Naut) To cover, as part of a rope, with marline, marking a pecular hitch at each turn to prevent unwinding.
  3. Marl
    To overspread or manure with marl; as, to marl a field.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) marl
    A mixture of clay with carbonate of lime, the latter being present in considerable quantity, forming a mass which is not consolidated, but falls to pieces readily on exposure to the air. The word marl, however, is used so vaguely as to be often ambiguous; and in England some substances are thus designated in which there is no lime. Marl is a valuable fertilizing material for different kinds of soil, according to its composition. In New Jersey the mixtures of greensand with clay much used as fertilizers are commonly called marls. or greensand-marls, and many varieties thus designated contain no more than one or two per cent, of carbonate of lime. Marls and marly soils are especially well developed in the Permian and Triassic of England and on the continent. The upper division of the Keuper in England is known as the “Red Marl Series,” and in places reaches a thickness of 3,000 feet. These marls are largely quarried at various points for making bricks. See shell-marl.
  2. marl
    To overspread or manure with marl.
  3. marl
    Nautical, to wind, as a rope, with marline, spun-yarn, twine, or other small stuff, every turn being secured by a sort of hitch: a common method of fastening strips of canvas called parceling, to prevent chafing.
  4. marl
    To ravel, as silk.
  5. (n) marl
    The fiber of those peacock-feathers which have the webs long and decomposed, so that the barbs stand apart, as if raveled: used for making artificial flies.
  6. marl
    To wonder; marvel.
  7. (n) marl
    Marble.
  8. (n) marl
    A marble (plaything).
  9. marl
    See the quotation.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Marl
    märl a fat earth or clay often used as manure
  2. (v.t) Marl
    to cover with marl
  3. (v.t) Marl
    to bind or wind round with marline
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary OF. marle, F. marne, LL. margila, dim. of L. marga, marl. Originally a Celtic word, according to Pliny, xvii. 7: “Quod genus terræ Galli et Britanni margam, vocant.” √274

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Dut. marlijn, marlingmarren, to bind, lijn, a rope—Fr. ligne; cf. moor and line.

Usage in the news

With Christopher Denham, Nicole Vicius, Brit Marling . cleveland.com

Marling is haunting in 'Sound of My Voice. sltrib.com

Brit Marling plays a spiritual guru who claims to be from the future, in the drama "Sound of My Voice". sltrib.com

Brit Marling is mysterious Maggie in "Sound of My Voice". denverpost.com

'Sound of My Voice' review: Brit Marling better 2nd time around. oregonlive.com

Ken Scott at the Marling HomeWorks Building and Home Improvement Expo. clo.com

Ken Scott at the Marling HomeWorks Building and Home Improvement. clo.com

Photo Galleries » Marling HomeWorks Building and Home Improvement Expo. clo.com

Laura Marling performs "Sophia" live in The Current studio. minnesota.publicradio.org

Laura Marling at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue. ashingtonpost.com

Laura Marling @ Troubadour, CA: September 20, 2011. cmj.com

Justin Brown at Marling Homeworks in Janesville. clo.com

Photo Galleries » Marling Homeworks. clo.com

REVIEWS Laura Marling , 'A Creature I Don't Know. spin.com

The Emmys, 'Drive,' Roger Ebert, Laura Marling . theatlantic.com

Usage in scientific papers

Marle: Structure locale des vari´et´es de Jacobi, J.
Generalized Lie bialgebroids and Jacobi structures

Marle: Structure locale des vari´et´es de Jacobi, J.
Jacobi groupoids and generalized Lie bialgebroids

Marle: Symplectic Geometry and Analytical Mechanics, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1987.
Jacobi groupoids and generalized Lie bialgebroids

Marle, Structure locale des vari´et´es de Jacobi. J.
Dirac Structures and Generalized Complex Structures on $TM\times\mathds{R}^h$

This approach was also used in by da Costa and Marle in the case of the Relativistic Toda lattice.
Multiple Hamiltonian structure of Bogoyavlensky-Toda lattices

Usage in literature

Sandy loam, light vegetable soil, or marl and peat grow them well. "Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers" by John Wood

In fitting breechings, a thimble is to be spliced into one end, the strands stuck through twice, and marled down. "Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy." by Bureau of Ordnance, USN

Magnesia may replace lime to some extent in such marls, but the firing temperature must be higher when magnesia is present. "Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3" by Various

De Marle was not quite ready to undertake this task. "Historical Tales, Vol. 6 (of 15)" by Charles Morris

Has Marling of Chicago been called up yet? "Torchy, Private Sec." by Sewell Ford

Green and red marl, shale, and shaly limestone with some veins of gypsum. "Old Mackinaw" by W. P. Strickland

Another is the Marl, or Wallich's Stag, which is also found in Persia. "Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found" by Mayne Reid

M. Marle went into the river to bathe. "The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago" by John S. C. Abbott

When we reached Pienza we were already in the middle of a country without cultivation, abandoned to the marl. "New Italian sketches" by John Addington Symonds

T' end of that was that Louis shot Marling through the shoulder and nearly blew his arm off. "Labrador Days" by Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

Usage in poetry
Old Kraken spied with kennelled snarl,
His Lady deemed disgraced.
He footed as on burning marl,
When out of Hall he paced.
Time and Thought were my surveyors,
They laid their courses well,
They boiled the sea, and piled the layers
Of granite, marl and shell.
Time and Thought were my surveyors,
They laid their courses well,
They boiled the sea, and baked the layers
Or granite, marl, and shell.