rammed earth


noun
  1. a mixture of sand, loam, clay, and other ingredients rammed hard within forms as a building material.

Origin of rammed earth

1
First recorded in 1825–35

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How to use rammed earth in a sentence

  • The back and side walls were made of two rows of bamboo a foot apart, with rammed earth between them.

    Life in an Indian Outpost | Gordon Casserly
  • It was a cell five feet by three, within another, the intervening being filled with rammed earth to deaden the sound.

  • The cone of rammed earth was apparently not reveted with stone.

    History of Ancient Art | Franz von Reber
  • rammed earth at box ends to be shaved down to a 45 degrees slope so as to splice in with new span of pis adjoining it.

  • They lived in thatched houses constructed of rammed earth and plaster, with beaten floors on which dry grass was strewn as carpet.

    The Civilization Of China | Herbert A. Giles