Usually means: Soil with balanced sand, silt, clay.
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  1. loam: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. loam: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. loam: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. loam: Collins English Dictionary
  5. loam: Vocabulary.com
  6. Loam, loam: Wordnik
  7. loam: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. loam: Wiktionary
  9. loam: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. loam: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. loam: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. loam: Dictionary.com
  13. loam: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Loam (disambiguation), Loam (restaurant), Loam: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Loam: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. loam: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. loam: Rhymezone
  18. Loam: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. loam: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. loam: Free Dictionary
  21. loam: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. loam: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

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  1. loam: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. LOAM: Acronym Finder

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. GreenWeb Gardening Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. L.O.A.M, loam: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. loam: Canadian Soil Information System
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (geology) A type of soil; an earthy mixture of sand, silt and clay, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due.
noun:  (metalworking) A mixture of sand, clay, and other materials, used in making moulds for large castings, often without a pattern.
verb:  To cover, smear, or fill with loam.
adjective:  Made of loam; consisting of loam.

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