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loam

[lohm]
–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)
5. to cover or stop with loam.

Origin:
bef. 900; late ME lome, earlier lam(e), OE lām; c. D leem, G Lehm loam, clay; akin to lime 1


loam⋅i⋅ness, noun
loamless, adjective
loamy, adjective
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loam 
O.E. lam "clay, mud, mire, earth," from P.Gmc. *laimaz (cf. O.S. lemo, Du. leem, Ger. Lehm), from PIE root *lai-/*li- "to be sticky" (see lime (1)). As a type of highly fertile clayey soil, it is attested from 1664.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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