murramn.

Brit.

/ˈmʌrəm/, U.S.

/ˈmərəm/

Forms: 1900s– murram, 1900s– murrum.

Origin: Of unknown origin.

Etymology: Origin unknown.Apparently not < an East African language. Perhaps compare Arabic maramma a repair.

A hard dry lateritic material associated with soils having impeded drainage in tropical Africa, used locally as road metal. Frequently attributive.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > earth > [noun] > laterite used for roads

murram1912

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

alum earth1612

cabook1834

laterite1893

ferricrete1902

murram1912

opal dirt1925

allite1930

Oxisol1960

1912 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 79 The fireclay pipes are made from..a mixture of mud and sand eroded from the deposits of murram.

1925 Dollar Mag. Sept. 120 What first catches the attention..of eyes weary of murrum or black cotton soil..is the soothing greenness.

1935 Soil Res. 4 192 Towards the foot of the slopes are murram soils.

1959 E. Huxley Flame Trees of Thika i. 7 A plain whose soil was largely murram, a coarse red gravel that baked hard and supported only thin, wiry grass, sad-looking thorn trees and tortured-branched erythrinas.

1961 Engineering 2 June 765 A variable thickness of murrum (a tough clay bound gravel).

1971 D. Creed Trial of Lobo Icheka vii. 78 In the town centre the wide murram road was a bedlam of activity.

1987 Rally Car Apr. 22/1 You've never seen mud until you've seen Kenyan murram!

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	murram
释义	murramn. Brit. /ˈmʌrəm/, U.S. /ˈmərəm/ Forms: 1900s– murram, 1900s– murrum. Origin: Of unknown origin. Etymology: Origin unknown.Apparently not < an East African language. Perhaps compare Arabic maramma a repair. A hard dry lateritic material associated with soils having impeded drainage in tropical Africa, used locally as road metal. Frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > earth > [noun] > laterite used for roads murram1912 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > kind of earth or soil > [noun] > mineral soil > others alum earth1612 cabook1834 laterite1893 ferricrete1902 murram1912 opal dirt1925 allite1930 Oxisol1960 1912 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 79 The fireclay pipes are made from..a mixture of mud and sand eroded from the deposits of murram. 1925 Dollar Mag. Sept. 120 What first catches the attention..of eyes weary of murrum or black cotton soil..is the soothing greenness. 1935 Soil Res. 4 192 Towards the foot of the slopes are murram soils. 1959 E. Huxley Flame Trees of Thika i. 7 A plain whose soil was largely murram, a coarse red gravel that baked hard and supported only thin, wiry grass, sad-looking thorn trees and tortured-branched erythrinas. 1961 Engineering 2 June 765 A variable thickness of murrum (a tough clay bound gravel). 1971 D. Creed Trial of Lobo Icheka vii. 78 In the town centre the wide murram road was a bedlam of activity. 1987 Rally Car Apr. 22/1 You've never seen mud until you've seen Kenyan murram! This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1912
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