Marl is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MARL in dictionary:

VERB:
• to fertilize with a calcareous clay
• apply marl to
• To cover, as part of a rope, with marline, marking a pecular hitch at each turn to prevent unwinding.
• fertilize (land) with marl
NOUN:
• an unconsolidated sedimentary rock or soil consisting of clay and lime, formerly used as fertilizer
• a mottled yarn of differently coloured threads, or fabric made from this yarn
• soil formed of clay and lime, used as fertilizer
• A mixed earthy substance, consisting of carbonate of lime, clay, and sand, in very varivble proportions, and accordingly designated as calcareous, clayey, or sandy. See Greensand.
• To overspread or manure with marl; as, to marl a field.
• a loose and crumbling earthy deposit consisting mainly of calcite or dolomite; used as a fertilizer for soils deficient in lime
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to fertilize with marl (an earthy deposit containing lime, clay, and sand)

Words related to MARL

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Words that contain MARL

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How to use MARL in a sentence

• The meeting of the stiff marl and the fine sand was abrupt, and well marked by the vegetation.
• I have never seen them, and can only say that the salt does not, it is said by geologists, lie in the sandstone, but at the bottom of the red marl which caps the sandstone.
• Why not? Some of the richest red marl land I know, is, as I have said, actually being made now, out of the black slates of Ilfracombe, wherever they are weathered by rain and air.
• The difference in colour between black slate and red marl is caused simply by the oxidation of the iron in the slate.
• Time and Thought were my surveyors, They laid their courses well, They boiled the sea, and baked the layers Of granite, marl, and shell.
• Then they wheeled to the right, passed through a thin belt of shade trees, across a splendid marl drive and a vast unkempt lawn.
• The white marl about their naked tops gives them a bleak and desolate appearance, which contrasts gloomily with the verdure of the surrounding cultivation.
• Marl is a compound of chalk and clay, or chalk and loam.
• It has value in the vicinity of marl beds but does not pay to haul very far.
• In England, where several kinds of marl are found in quantities, its use was probably never discontinued after the Roman times.
• In connection with the history of the use of marl in agriculture may be cited the tender tribute which Arthur Young recorded on the tombstone of his wife in Bradfield Church.
• Arriving at Richmond, I had a strong notion of going into the marl business.
• I had been down into Kent county, the summer before, where I saw great mountains of this white marl composed of shells of clams and oysters white as chalk.
• During hundreds of years the river has deposited vast quantities of marl at the upper ends of this valley.
• The alluvial bed of the stream consisted of marl, fragments of red quartz, and other rocks.
• The salt rock in Cheshire lies in strata of red marl.
• A sensible or considerable portion of calcareous earth, in the composition of clay, constitutes a marl, and a sufficient admixture of sand, a loam.
• The second place was Jedburgh, where I found the vertical strata covered with the horizontal sandstone and marl, as has been now described.
• After this nothing appears but the schistus rocks, until sand-stone and marl again are found at Red-heugh above the vertical strata.
• Time and Thought were my surveyors, They laid their courses well, They boiled the sea, and piled the layers Of granite, marl and shell.
• At last accounts he had found marl in more than seventeen hundred places, and he is not done yet.
• With water and marl, the means were at hand for fighting it and winning out.
• While the canal digger and marl seeker were at work, there had been neighborhood meetings and talks at which Captain Dalgas did the talking.
• Money is flowing into the moor in the wake of the water and the marl.
• A dark, rusty-colored sand, or a ferruginous marl on a substratum of limestone, kills the tree in a few years.

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