loamn.

Brit.

/ləʊm/, U.S.

/loʊm/

Forms: Old English lám, ( laam), Middle English lam, Middle English, 1500s–1800s Scottish lame, Middle English–1700s lome, (Middle English in combination lom-), 1500s–1700s loame, 1500s–1600s Scottish and northern leame, 1600s leem, 1700s–1800s loom, (1800s laem), 1500s– loam.

Etymology: Old English lám neuter = Middle Dutch, Dutch leem , Middle Low German lêm , whence modern German lehm masculine; with different declension the word is found as Old High German leimo (masculine) (Middle High German leime , modern High German dialect leimen ); the Old Germanic forms *laimo- , *laimon- are from the root *lai- (:*lῑ- ) to be sticky, occurring also in lair n.²; for cognates in other ablaut-grades see lime n.¹

†1.

a. Clay, clayey earth, mud; occasionally ‘earth’ or ‘clay’ as the material of the human body. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > bodily substance > [noun]

loamc725

flesh and fellc1000

fleshtimbera1225

flesh and blooda1340

powderc1350

substancec1350

claya1400

paste1645

corporeity1647

muscle1819

tissue1834

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > clay > [noun]

loamc725

clayc1000

glaye1575

cloom1609

cledge1724

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > [noun] > mud

loamc725

fenc897

addleOE

fanc1340

mudc1400

slutchc1400

slikec1425

slipc1440

slobber1440

sorec1440

sludge1649

mux1746

gutter1785

slakec1800

sposh1836

mudge1848

c725 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 6/38 Argella, laam.

c1000 Ælfric Genesis ii. 7 God gesceop eornostlice man of þære eorðan lame.

c1175 Cott. Hom. 221 And god þa ȝeworhte ænne man of lame.

a1225 Leg. Kath. 991 Ȝe! ne makede he mon of lam to his ilicnesse?

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11985 And o lame o þaa lakes selue Wit handes made he sparus tuelue.

c1480 (a1400) St. Bartholomew 134 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 184 Adame, Þat wrocht w[e]s of vmwemmyt lame.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. i. 179 The purest treasure mortall times afford, Is spotlesse Reputation that away Men are but guilded loame, or painted clay.

1600 P. Holland tr. J. B. Marlianus Svmmary Topogr. Rome iv. ix, in tr. Livy Rom. Hist. 1376 The name [Argiletus] it taketh of a kind of clay or lome, where of there is plentie in that place.

1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xiii. xxiv. 492 This man therefore being framed of dust, or lome [L. de terræ pulvere sive limo], (for lome is moystned dust).

a1634 W. Austin Devotionis Augustinianæ Flamma (1635) 289 My Fathers House is Earth where I must lye: A House of Clay best fits a Guest of Lome.

1655 N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick ix. iii. 257 Some [sc. depraved appetites] desire Clay, Coals, Earth, Loam, Chalk and the like.

figurative.a1657 G. Daniel Poems (1878) II. 72 See to the Politicke Is not Hee partly Sicke? Are his Designes vnmixt with Drosse and Loame?a1657 R. Lovelace Poems (1864) 192 Thou art become Slave to the spawn of mud and lome.

b. Used loosely for: Earth, ground soil. archaic.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > [noun]

earthOE

claya1300

grita1325

groota1400

grounda1400

loama1400

soilc1440

marl1590

terroir1653

dirt1698

dutty1873

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 193 (MED) Þar sal ȝe find..O lazar ded laid vnder lam.

c1440 York Myst. xxxix. 5 Maria. In lame is it loken all my light, For-thy on grounde on-glad I goo.

1616 Barbour's Actes & Life Bruce (Hart) 378 That time Edward of Carnauerane The King, was dead, and laide in Lame [1487 St. John's Cambr., 1489 Adv. stane].

1867 G. MacDonald Poems 160 I'll see the corpse, ere he's laid in the loam.

1871 J. Miller Songs Italy (1878) 12 These skies are Rome! The very loam Lifts up and speaks in Roman pride.

2. Clay moistened with water so as to form a paste capable of being moulded into any shape; spec. a composition of moistened clay and sand with an admixture of horse-dung, chopped straw, or the like, used in making bricks and casting-moulds, plastering walls, grafting, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > [noun] > with water

loam1480

clama1555

slip1640

puddle1791

puddling1826

slop1844

pug1853

1480 Ward. Acc. Edw. IV (1830) 127 Payed..for borde naill and lome for cering and amending of his chambre flore.

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 56/2 In nowyse gyue nomore chaf to the peple forto make lome and claye.

1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. xii. i. 234 The claie wherewith our houses are impanelled, is either white, red, or blue,..the second is called lome.

1587 L. Mascall Bk. Cattell (1627) 40 Ye may giue him lome of a wall mixt with vrine.

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. i. 206 Of earth wee make Lome, & why of that Lome whereto he was conuerted [etc.] .

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §427 You may take off the Barke of any Bough..and couer the bare Place..with Loame well tempered with Horse-dung, binding it fast downe.

1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. i. 13 Make a Loam of three parts Clay and one part Horse-dung.

1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. iii. 57 By covering the Steel [in annealing] with a course Powder of Cow-Horns,..and so inclosing it in a Loam.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 86/2 Lome, a kind of Clay to put about Grafts, made of Clay and Horse-dung.

1694 J. Dryden Love Triumphant iv. i. 65 The Lodging Rooms are furnisht with Loam.

c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 116 Their buildings are of timber of Loame and Lathes.

1760 J. Ellis in Philos. Trans. 1759 (Royal Soc.) 51 208 A cake of plaisterers stiff loam, or such as the brewers use to stop their beer barrels.

1789 P. Smyth tr. H. Aldrich Archit. (1818) 80 The loom during the winter should be kept steeped, and made into bricks in the spring.

1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 518–19 [Founding.] Over the brick dome a pasty layer of loam is applied..; this surface is then coated with a much smoother loam.

1883 T. D. West Amer. Foundry Pract. (ed. 2) 184 In some places a natural loam can be obtained—but this is rare; most shops have to make their loam of different proportions of sharp and loam sands.

proverbial phrase.a1600 R. Hooker Learned Disc. (1612) 22 But we wash a wall of lome; we labor in vaine.

3. A soil of great fertility composed chiefly of clay and sand with an admixture of decomposed vegetable matter.It is called clay loam or sandy loam according as the clay or sand preponderates.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > kind of earth or soil > [noun] > organic soil > loam

loam1699

mother earth1731

1699 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 9) 67 A natural Earth, with an Eye of Loam in it (such as is proper for most Flowers).

1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Flower Where the Ground is too stiff, and that you desire a natural Mixture to bring it to the State of Loam, you must add to it a sufficient Quantity of dry or Sea Sand.

1762 A. Dickson Treat. Agric. iv. iii. 399 Loam, it is probable, is not an original soil, but the earth of rotten vegetables.

1767 A. Young Farmer's Lett. 119 The soil is an exceeding light sandy loam.

1803 Gazetteer Scotl. at Alford The arable soil..is generally a light loam.

1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 268 Cliffs, composed..of alternating strata of blue clay, gravel, loam, and fine sand.

1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 376 The loam discolours the water during a storm for several yards out to sea.

1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders II. xii. 228 The fruity district of deep loam.

Compounds

C1. attributive passing into adj. Made of or consisting of loam.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > [adjective] > made of loam

loamc1540

loamy1658

c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. iii. xiv. f. 35^v/2 In Fyndoure..wes found ane anciant sepulture, in quhilk wer .ii. lame piggis craftely maid.

1563 J. Davidson Answer to Tractiue Kennedy in D. Laing Misc. Wodrow Soc. (1844) I. 214 The leame pote that contenis the medicine.

1606 W. Birnie Blame of Kirk-buriall ii. sig. B1^v Cælo tegitur qui non habet urnam... And heauens will cover when leame tombes cannot do'ide.

1623 T. Goad Dolefull Even-song sig. C3 They with their Kniues opened the Loame-wall next vnto them.

1637 S. Rutherford Lett. (1664) 66 Are we not Gods leem vessels?

1650 J. Row & J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 260 He dreamed that he was a lame pig.

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. x. 103 To cut their passage out of a lome wall into the next chamber.

1663 Inventory Ld. J. Gordon's Furnit. in J. Nicholson Minute Bk. War Comm. Covenanters Kirkcudbright (1855) A lame pot for watering chamberes.

1703 London Gaz. No. 3953/1 A Manufacture of Lame, Purslaine and Earthen Ware.

1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. at Aschet Ashets seem to have been the first things of lame ware.

1884 Cassell's Family Mag. Feb. 140 Our loam-heap should be free from all vermin.

C2. attributive and in other combinations, spec. in Founding, Brickmaking, and Bricklaying.

loam brick n.

ΚΠ

1881 C. Wylie Iron Founding 15 Dried loam off castings..is only used for making loam bricks for cores.

loam cake n.

ΚΠ

1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Loam-cake.

loam casting n.

ΚΠ

1881 C. Wylie Iron Founding 49 Loam castings, as a rule, do not contract so much as sand castings.

loam lute n.

ΚΠ

1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1057 It [sc. a stoneware pipe] is..secured at the joints with loam-lute.

loam mould n.

ΚΠ

1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 518 Loam moulds.

loam work n.

ΚΠ

18.. Archit. Publ. Soc. Dict. (at cited word) Early loam work [sc. in building] is often stamped in patterns.

1881 C. Wylie Iron Founding 50 In large loam castings this occurs to a greater extent than in small or light loam work.

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loam-beater n.

loam-board n.

ΚΠ

1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. Loam Board, a board having an edge cut to the outline of the sectional shape of the work which it is intended to strike up.

loam-foot n.

ΚΠ

1940 T. S. Eliot East Coker i. 8 Lifting heavy feet in clumsy shoes Earth feet, loam feet, lifted in country mirth.

1955 D. Davie Brides of Reason 28 Come with me by the self-consuming north (The North is spirit), to the loam-foot west And opulent departures of the south.

loam-hook n.

ΚΠ

1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 14 A Loame-hook, Beater, Shovel, Pick-Ax, Basket and Hod, which commonly belong to Bricklaiers Labourers, and may be called the Labourers Tools.

loam-mill n.

ΚΠ

1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 518 The mould is formed of a pasty mixture of clay, water, sand, and cow's hair..kneaded together in what is called the loam mill.

loam-moulder n.

ΚΠ

1881 C. Wylie Iron Founding 98 No doubt Hiram, in Solomon's time, was a thorough loam-moulder.

loam-moulding n.

ΚΠ

1881 C. Wylie Iron Founding 98 Loam moulding stands distinctly apart from either green-sand or dry-sand moulding.

C3.

loam-salts n. ? land composed of loam impregnated with salt.

ΚΠ

1852 J. Wiggins Pract. Embanking Lands 100 A piece of silty loam-salts, near Fossdyke.

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loamv.

Brit.

/ləʊm/, U.S.

/loʊm/

Etymology: < loam n.

1. transitive. To cover or plaster with loam. ? Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > surfacing or cladding > clad or cover [verb (transitive)] > clad or cover with other materials

pitcheOE

lute1495

loam1600

bitume1609

wainscota1631

mud1632

putty1719

compo1809

belute1837

smear1839

puddle1844

plash1864

canvas1865

cement1886

TP1962

toilet-paper1964

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique iii. xviii. 460 After..loming the ioints and seames very well with gum and wax mixt together.

1630 J. Smith True Trav. 25 With the ashes of bones tempered with oile, Camels haire, and a clay they have; they lome them so well, that no weather will pierce them.

1671 J. Webster Metallographia xi. 157 They diligently lome or daub up the pots with clay, or lute.

1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 26 Girders which lye in the Walls, must be Loamed all over, to preserve them from the corroding of the Morter.

2. To dress with loam.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > fertilize or manure [verb (transitive)] > treat with other natural fertilizer

marlc1265

chavec1420

chalk?1578

lime1649

soot1707

sand1721

straw-burn1799

sprat1832

loam?1842

guanize1843

guano1847

bone1873

herring1879

?1842 E. J. Lance Cottage Farmer 12 They are grown in the deep sands which have been loamed.

3. Australian. intransitive and transitive. To search (a region) for gold by washing the loam from a hill's base until the increasing number of gold grains leads to the lode.

ΚΠ

1935 Bulletin (Sydney) 13 Feb. 21/1 He'll be loaming up a hill and following a trace, Until he gets above the gold.

1953 People (Austral.) 23 Sept. 39/1 Loaming for gold he explains, entails, roughly, taking samples of loam from the topsoil, washing it in a dish, counting the colors and following them in intensity until a likely spot to sink a shaft is found.

1966 ‘J. Hackston’ Father clears Out 50 Old Tom was to make himself useful about the plant, and loam the surrounding country for the reef.

Derivatives

ˈloaming n.

ΚΠ

1916 R. MacKay Recoll. Early Gippsland Goldfields vi. 29/2 The science of loaming was either then unknown, or known to very few.

1916 R. MacKay Recoll. Early Gippsland Goldfields vi. 30/1 The loaming system will tire the strongest and most wiry man that every swung a pick.

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单词	loam
释义	loamn. Brit. /ləʊm/, U.S. /loʊm/ Forms: Old English lám, ( laam), Middle English lam, Middle English, 1500s–1800s Scottish lame, Middle English–1700s lome, (Middle English in combination lom-), 1500s–1700s loame, 1500s–1600s Scottish and northern leame, 1600s leem, 1700s–1800s loom, (1800s laem), 1500s– loam. Etymology: Old English lám neuter = Middle Dutch, Dutch leem , Middle Low German lêm , whence modern German lehm masculine; with different declension the word is found as Old High German leimo (masculine) (Middle High German leime , modern High German dialect leimen ); the Old Germanic forms laimo- , laimon- are from the root lai- (:lῑ- ) to be sticky, occurring also in lair n.²; for cognates in other ablaut-grades see lime n.¹ †1. a. Clay, clayey earth, mud; occasionally ‘earth’ or ‘clay’ as the material of the human body. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily substance > [noun] loamc725 flesh and fellc1000 fleshtimbera1225 flesh and blooda1340 powderc1350 substancec1350 claya1400 paste1645 corporeity1647 muscle1819 tissue1834 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > clay > [noun] loamc725 clayc1000 glaye1575 cloom1609 cledge1724 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > [noun] > mud loamc725 fenc897 addleOE fanc1340 mudc1400 slutchc1400 slikec1425 slipc1440 slobber1440 sorec1440 sludge1649 mux1746 gutter1785 slakec1800 sposh1836 mudge1848 c725 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 6/38 Argella, laam. c1000 Ælfric Genesis ii. 7 God gesceop eornostlice man of þære eorðan lame. c1175 Cott. Hom. 221 And god þa ȝeworhte ænne man of lame. a1225 Leg. Kath. 991 Ȝe! ne makede he mon of lam to his ilicnesse? a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11985 And o lame o þaa lakes selue Wit handes made he sparus tuelue. c1480 (a1400) St. Bartholomew 134 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 184 Adame, Þat wrocht w[e]s of vmwemmyt lame. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. i. 179 The purest treasure mortall times afford, Is spotlesse Reputation that away Men are but guilded loame, or painted clay. View more context for this quotation 1600 P. Holland tr. J. B. Marlianus Svmmary Topogr. Rome iv. ix, in tr. Livy Rom. Hist. 1376 The name [Argiletus] it taketh of a kind of clay or lome, where of there is plentie in that place. 1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xiii. xxiv. 492 This man therefore being framed of dust, or lome [L. de terræ pulvere sive limo], (for lome is moystned dust). a1634 W. Austin Devotionis Augustinianæ Flamma (1635) 289 My Fathers House is Earth where I must lye: A House of Clay best fits a Guest of Lome. 1655 N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick ix. iii. 257 Some [sc. depraved appetites] desire Clay, Coals, Earth, Loam, Chalk and the like. figurative.a1657 G. Daniel Poems (1878) II. 72 See to the Politicke Is not Hee partly Sicke? Are his Designes vnmixt with Drosse and Loame?a1657 R. Lovelace Poems (1864) 192 Thou art become Slave to the spawn of mud and lome. b. Used loosely for: Earth, ground soil. archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > [noun] earthOE claya1300 grita1325 groota1400 grounda1400 loama1400 soilc1440 marl1590 terroir1653 dirt1698 dutty1873 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 193 (MED) Þar sal ȝe find..O lazar ded laid vnder lam. c1440 York Myst. xxxix. 5 Maria. In lame is it loken all my light, For-thy on grounde on-glad I goo. 1616 Barbour's Actes & Life Bruce (Hart) 378 That time Edward of Carnauerane The King, was dead, and laide in Lame [1487 St. John's Cambr., 1489 Adv. stane]. 1867 G. MacDonald Poems 160 I'll see the corpse, ere he's laid in the loam. 1871 J. Miller Songs Italy (1878) 12 These skies are Rome! The very loam Lifts up and speaks in Roman pride. 2. Clay moistened with water so as to form a paste capable of being moulded into any shape; spec. a composition of moistened clay and sand with an admixture of horse-dung, chopped straw, or the like, used in making bricks and casting-moulds, plastering walls, grafting, etc. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > [noun] > with water loam1480 clama1555 slip1640 puddle1791 puddling1826 slop1844 pug1853 1480 Ward. Acc. Edw. IV (1830) 127 Payed..for borde naill and lome for cering and amending of his chambre flore. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 56/2 In nowyse gyue nomore chaf to the peple forto make lome and claye. 1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. xii. i. 234 The claie wherewith our houses are impanelled, is either white, red, or blue,..the second is called lome. 1587 L. Mascall Bk. Cattell (1627) 40 Ye may giue him lome of a wall mixt with vrine. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. i. 206 Of earth wee make Lome, & why of that Lome whereto he was conuerted [etc.] . View more context for this quotation 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §427 You may take off the Barke of any Bough..and couer the bare Place..with Loame well tempered with Horse-dung, binding it fast downe. 1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. i. 13 Make a Loam of three parts Clay and one part Horse-dung. 1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. iii. 57 By covering the Steel [in annealing] with a course Powder of Cow-Horns,..and so inclosing it in a Loam. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 86/2 Lome, a kind of Clay to put about Grafts, made of Clay and Horse-dung. 1694 J. Dryden Love Triumphant iv. i. 65 The Lodging Rooms are furnisht with Loam. c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 116 Their buildings are of timber of Loame and Lathes. 1760 J. Ellis in Philos. Trans. 1759 (Royal Soc.) 51 208 A cake of plaisterers stiff loam, or such as the brewers use to stop their beer barrels. 1789 P. Smyth tr. H. Aldrich Archit. (1818) 80 The loom during the winter should be kept steeped, and made into bricks in the spring. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 518–19 [Founding.] Over the brick dome a pasty layer of loam is applied..; this surface is then coated with a much smoother loam. 1883 T. D. West Amer. Foundry Pract. (ed. 2) 184 In some places a natural loam can be obtained—but this is rare; most shops have to make their loam of different proportions of sharp and loam sands. proverbial phrase.a1600 R. Hooker Learned Disc. (1612) 22 But we wash a wall of lome; we labor in vaine. 3. A soil of great fertility composed chiefly of clay and sand with an admixture of decomposed vegetable matter.It is called clay loam or sandy loam according as the clay or sand preponderates. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > kind of earth or soil > [noun] > organic soil > loam loam1699 mother earth1731 1699 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 9) 67 A natural Earth, with an Eye of Loam in it (such as is proper for most Flowers). 1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Flower Where the Ground is too stiff, and that you desire a natural Mixture to bring it to the State of Loam, you must add to it a sufficient Quantity of dry or Sea Sand. 1762 A. Dickson Treat. Agric. iv. iii. 399 Loam, it is probable, is not an original soil, but the earth of rotten vegetables. 1767 A. Young Farmer's Lett. 119 The soil is an exceeding light sandy loam. 1803 Gazetteer Scotl. at Alford The arable soil..is generally a light loam. 1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 268 Cliffs, composed..of alternating strata of blue clay, gravel, loam, and fine sand. 1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 376 The loam discolours the water during a storm for several yards out to sea. 1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders II. xii. 228 The fruity district of deep loam. Compounds C1. attributive passing into adj. Made of or consisting of loam. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > [adjective] > made of loam loamc1540 loamy1658 c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. iii. xiv. f. 35^v/2 In Fyndoure..wes found ane anciant sepulture, in quhilk wer .ii. lame piggis craftely maid. 1563 J. Davidson Answer to Tractiue Kennedy in D. Laing Misc. Wodrow Soc. (1844) I. 214 The leame pote that contenis the medicine. 1606 W. Birnie Blame of Kirk-buriall ii. sig. B1^v Cælo tegitur qui non habet urnam... And heauens will cover when leame tombes cannot do'ide. 1623 T. Goad Dolefull Even-song sig. C3 They with their Kniues opened the Loame-wall next vnto them. 1637 S. Rutherford Lett. (1664) 66 Are we not Gods leem vessels? 1650 J. Row & J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 260 He dreamed that he was a lame pig. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. x. 103 To cut their passage out of a lome wall into the next chamber. 1663 Inventory Ld. J. Gordon's Furnit. in J. Nicholson Minute Bk. War Comm. Covenanters Kirkcudbright (1855) A lame pot for watering chamberes. 1703 London Gaz. No. 3953/1 A Manufacture of Lame, Purslaine and Earthen Ware. 1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. at Aschet Ashets seem to have been the first things of lame ware. 1884 Cassell's Family Mag. Feb. 140 Our loam-heap should be free from all vermin. C2. attributive and in other combinations, spec. in Founding, Brickmaking, and Bricklaying. a. loam brick n. ΚΠ 1881 C. Wylie Iron Founding 15 Dried loam off castings..is only used for making loam bricks for cores. loam cake n. ΚΠ 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Loam-cake. loam casting n. ΚΠ 1881 C. Wylie Iron Founding 49 Loam castings, as a rule, do not contract so much as sand castings. loam lute n. ΚΠ 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1057 It [sc. a stoneware pipe] is..secured at the joints with loam-lute. loam mould n. ΚΠ 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 518 Loam moulds. loam work n. ΚΠ 18.. Archit. Publ. Soc. Dict. (at cited word) Early loam work [sc. in building] is often stamped in patterns. 1881 C. Wylie Iron Founding 50 In large loam castings this occurs to a greater extent than in small or light loam work. b. Categories » loam-beater n. loam-board n. ΚΠ 1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. Loam Board, a board having an edge cut to the outline of the sectional shape of the work which it is intended to strike up. loam-foot n. ΚΠ 1940 T. S. Eliot East Coker i. 8 Lifting heavy feet in clumsy shoes Earth feet, loam feet, lifted in country mirth. 1955 D. Davie Brides of Reason 28 Come with me by the self-consuming north (The North is spirit), to the loam-foot west And opulent departures of the south. loam-hook n. ΚΠ 1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 14 A Loame-hook, Beater, Shovel, Pick-Ax, Basket and Hod, which commonly belong to Bricklaiers Labourers, and may be called the Labourers Tools. loam-mill n. ΚΠ 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 518 The mould is formed of a pasty mixture of clay, water, sand, and cow's hair..kneaded together in what is called the loam mill. loam-moulder n. ΚΠ 1881 C. Wylie Iron Founding 98 No doubt Hiram, in Solomon's time, was a thorough loam-moulder. loam-moulding n. ΚΠ 1881 C. Wylie Iron Founding 98 Loam moulding stands distinctly apart from either green-sand or dry-sand moulding. C3. loam-salts n. ? land composed of loam impregnated with salt. ΚΠ 1852 J. Wiggins Pract. Embanking Lands 100 A piece of silty loam-salts, near Fossdyke. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). loamv. Brit. /ləʊm/, U.S. /loʊm/ Etymology: < loam n. 1. transitive. To cover or plaster with loam. ? Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > surfacing or cladding > clad or cover [verb (transitive)] > clad or cover with other materials pitcheOE lute1495 loam1600 bitume1609 wainscota1631 mud1632 putty1719 compo1809 belute1837 smear1839 puddle1844 plash1864 canvas1865 cement1886 TP1962 toilet-paper1964 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique iii. xviii. 460 After..loming the ioints and seames very well with gum and wax mixt together. 1630 J. Smith True Trav. 25 With the ashes of bones tempered with oile, Camels haire, and a clay they have; they lome them so well, that no weather will pierce them. 1671 J. Webster Metallographia xi. 157 They diligently lome or daub up the pots with clay, or lute. 1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 26 Girders which lye in the Walls, must be Loamed all over, to preserve them from the corroding of the Morter. 2. To dress with loam. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > fertilize or manure [verb (transitive)] > treat with other natural fertilizer marlc1265 chavec1420 chalk?1578 lime1649 soot1707 sand1721 straw-burn1799 sprat1832 loam?1842 guanize1843 guano1847 bone1873 herring1879 ?1842 E. J. Lance Cottage Farmer 12 They are grown in the deep sands which have been loamed. 3. Australian. intransitive and transitive. To search (a region) for gold by washing the loam from a hill's base until the increasing number of gold grains leads to the lode. ΚΠ 1935 Bulletin (Sydney) 13 Feb. 21/1 He'll be loaming up a hill and following a trace, Until he gets above the gold. 1953 People (Austral.) 23 Sept. 39/1 Loaming for gold he explains, entails, roughly, taking samples of loam from the topsoil, washing it in a dish, counting the colors and following them in intensity until a likely spot to sink a shaft is found. 1966 ‘J. Hackston’ Father clears Out 50 Old Tom was to make himself useful about the plant, and loam the surrounding country for the reef. Derivatives ˈloaming n. ΚΠ 1916 R. MacKay Recoll. Early Gippsland Goldfields vi. 29/2 The science of loaming was either then unknown, or known to very few. 1916 R. MacKay Recoll. Early Gippsland Goldfields vi. 30/1 The loaming system will tire the strongest and most wiry man that every swung a pick. 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