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   loam

   /ləʊm/

   noun

   • 1. a fertile soil of clay and sand containing humus.
   • ▪ a soil with roughly equal proportions of sand, silt, and clay.
   • ▪ a paste of clay and water with sand, chopped straw, etc., used in making bricks and plastering walls.

   Word Origin Old Englishlām ‘clay’, of West Germanic origin: related to Dutch leem and German Lehm, also to lime1.

   Scrabble Points: 6

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