rammed earth

noun

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

First recorded in 1825–35

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

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.

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.

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