Definitions for loam

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loam loam

Spelling: [lohm]

IPA: /loʊm/

Loam is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 35 anagrams from letters in loam (almo).

Definitions for loam

noun

1. a rich, friable soil containing a relatively equal mixture of sand and silt and a somewhat smaller proportion of clay.
2. a mixture of clay, sand, straw, etc., used in making molds for founding and in plastering walls, stopping holes, etc.
3. earth or soil.
4. Obsolete. clay or clayey earth.

verb (used with object)

1. to cover or stop with loam.

Origin of loam

before 900; late Middle English lome, earlier lam(e), Old English lām; cognate with Dutch leem, German Lehm loam, clay; akin to lime¹

Examples for loam

loam: an earthy mixture of clay and sand with organic matter.

Every plant had all the loam, light, water, air and nourishment it could use.

That gate (steinmaul) is coated with a mixture of loam and hair.

The loam should be slightly moist, and free from organic matter.

Test with clay, gravel, and loam, also with mixtures of these and leaf-mould.

Pot in August in loam, leaf-soil, or peat, and a little manure and sand.

It is not choice as to soil but will grow in loam, sand, gravel, or among rocks.

Beyond the reach of the Nile's overflow the sand and loam was bare of vegetation.

In the shape of a man he reeled, but it was not the shape of a man that struck the loam.

A stiff, half-clay soil with some loam is best suited to this crop.