Definitions for loams

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loams loam

Spelling: [lohm]

IPA: /loʊm/

Loams is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in loams (almos).

Definitions for loams

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 loams

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 loams

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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