loam
loʊm-
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loam
a rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials
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Loam
A kind of soil; an earthy mixture of clay and sand, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due. "We wash a wall of loam ; we labor in vain." -
Loam
(Founding) A mixture of sand, clay, and other materials, used in making molds for large castings, often without a pattern. -
Loam
To cover, smear, or fill with loam.
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(n)
loam
A soil consisting of a natural mixture of clay and sand, the latter being present in sufficient quantity to overcome the tendency of the clay to form a coherent mass. That which is ordinarily called loam is fine-grained, homogeneous, and “light”—that is, not densely compacted together. Carbonate of lime is usually present in small quantity, and also organic matter. See marl, soil, and loess. -
(n)
loam
In founding, a mixture of sand, clay, sawdust, straw, etc., used in making the molds for castings. The compound must be plastic when wet, and hard, air-tight, and able to resist high temperatures when dry. Specifically called casting-loam. -
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loam
A vessel of clay; an earthen vessel. -
loam
To cover or coat with loam; clay.
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Loam
lōm a muddy soil, of clay, sand, and animal and vegetable matter -
(v.t)
Loam
to cover with loam
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary AS. lām,; akin to D. leem, G. lehm, and E. lime,. See 4th Lime
And if you've got a good balance of these three mineral elements your soil is called loam. klru.org
Wine pairing Pick a Pinot Noir with earthy loam and mushroom notes to echo the mushrooms in the tarts. sunset.com
I live in Natomas (with heavy clay soil ), so I want to build some raised planter beds with better soil (such as loam) for growing vegetables. sacbee.com
Ohio's barns grow up with us, rising from good glacial loam like the virgin hardwood timber that gives them strength and form. ohiomagazine.com
The image contains R = 3 mixed components (construction concrete, green grass and micaceous loam) whose spectra (L = 413 spectral bands) have been extracted from the spectral libraries distributed with the ENVI package [?]. A label map shown in Fig. 4 (left) has been generated using (5) with β = 1.1.
Enhancing hyperspectral image unmixing with spatial correlations
Bottom: abundance maps of the 3 pure materials estimated by the hybrid Gibbs sampler (from left to right: construction concrete, green grass, micaceous loam).
Enhancing hyperspectral image unmixing with spatial correlations
In their excursions through the island they had met with a slimy loam, or a kind of clay nearly in the middle of it. "The History of Sandford and Merton" by
On the pathway of soft, dark loam his steps fell noiselessly. "The Side Of The Angels" by
There it was dark, and one smelled the boards of an old wooden box that stood there, garden loam, and the sourish barberries. "The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries" by
It does well on plum-stock, and best in good deep, moist loam, manured as the peach and plum. "Soil Culture" by
No stumps, no stones, and the loam's thick. "The Plow-Woman" by
Such are deposits of coal, ores, or oil, and those ingredients of loam which are exhausted by tillage. "Essentials of Economic Theory" by
Cherries like a deep, mellow, and rather sandy soil, but they also thrive on a good loam lying on chalk. "The Book of Pears and Plums" by
The whole consisted of Nile deposits, alternate layers of loam and sand of the same composition throughout. "History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2)" by
Below the loam was sand; under the sand a layer of fresh-water shells; under these were sand, gravel, and London clay. "Old and New London" by
Cilicia Pedias included the rugged spurs of Taurus and a large plain, which consists, in great part, of a rich stoneless loam. "Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3" by
All this love a bitter foam,
Blown about a life of loam
That must break and fade?
To see where their feet have unwittingly trod,
Tiny tracks in the loam of the new broken sod
Betwixt them and their mother!
Only a transient spark
Of flickering flame set in loam of clay – I care not …since you kindle all my dark
With the immortal lustres of the day.
With not a stump upon it,
The loam wus jest as rich an' black
Es school ma'am's velvet bunnit;
But tho' he flourish'd, folks all know'd
What spiritooal ear-marks he show'd.
Seems kin to the loam and the soil,
Wherever its high shrill note is sung,
Out of the jungle fair homes have sprung,
And the voices of babel find one tongue,
In the common language of toil.
With miles and miles of unused sky, and miles of unturned loam,
And miles of room for someone else, and miles of room for me
I've found a bigger meaning for the little word called "Home."