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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: mäl, IPA(key): /mɑːl/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) enPR: märl, IPA(key): /mɑɹl/
- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)l
Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English marle, from Old French marle, from Late Latin margila, diminutive of marga (“marl”).[1] Doublet of marla.
Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]marl (countable and uncountable, plural marls)
- A mixed earthy substance, consisting of carbonate of lime, clay, and possibly sand, in very variable proportions, and accordingly designated as calcareous, clayey, or sandy.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- ... uneasie steps / Over the burning Marle, not like those steps / On Heavens Azure...
- 1952 July, W. R. Watson, “Sankey Viaduct and Embankment”, in Railway Magazine, pages 486-487:
- Mr. Greenshields was the contractor selected to build the embankment, and over a hundred thousand tons of marl and moss compacted with brushwood were used in its construction.
- 1955, Robert Herman Bogue, The chemistry of portland cement, page 39:
- Important marl and marine-shell deposits are worked in Michigan, Virginia, and Florida.
- 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 231:
- The surroundings were unearthly. It was not a fish setting—only bare rock, no trees, pungent sagebrush, and marl dust floating when a truck passed.
- 2004, Peter Porter, “Why Did Dante Pick on Suicides”, in Afterburner:
- Those loved unhappy shades whom Dante turned / To sticks and marl
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]a mixed earthy substance
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See also
[edit]Verb
[edit]marl (third-person singular simple present marls, present participle marling, simple past and past participle marled)
- (transitive) To cover with the earthy substance called marl.
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]marl (third-person singular simple present marls, present participle marling, simple past and past participle marled)
- (nautical) To cover, as part of a rope, with marline, marking a peculiar hitch at each turn to prevent unwinding.
- Synonym: marline
Translations
[edit]Etymology 3
[edit]Borrowed from Nyunga maarl.[2]
Noun
[edit]marl (plural marls)
- (Australia) A species of bandicoot, Perameles myosurus, of southern Western Australia.
- Synonym: western barred bandicoot
References
[edit]- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “marl”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- ^ The Macquarie Dictionary https://www.macquariedictionary.com.au
Anagrams
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]marl
- Alternative form of marle
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