Definition of "loam" []

• Soil composed of a mixture of sand, clay, silt, and organic matter. (noun)
• A mixture of moist clay and sand, and often straw, used especially in making bricks and foundry molds. (noun)
• To fill, cover, or coat with loam. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The term loam is applied to a soil which, from its appearance in the field and the feeling when handled, appears to be about one-half sand and the other half silt and clay with more or less organic matter."
• "It's the top spit that puzzles us, and loam is the most important thing of all."
• "Ash of the loam was a lady at home when Brut was an outlaw man"