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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English marle, from Old French marle, from Late Latin margila, diminutive of marga (“marl”).[1] Doublet of marla.
Noun
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 ; nd by Robert Boulter ; 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
Translations
a mixed earthy substance
- Afrikaans: mergel (af)
- Aragonese: salagón m
- Armenian: մերգել (hy) (mergel), կրակավ (hy) (krakav)
- Azerbaijani: mergel
- Basque: marga, tupa (eu), tuparri
- Belarusian: мергель m (mjerhjelʹ)
- Bulgarian: мергел m (mergel)
- Catalan: marga (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 泥灰岩 (zh) (níhuīyán)
- Czech: slín (cs) m
- Danish: mergel (da) c
- Dutch: mergel (nl) m
- Esperanto: marno
- Estonian: mergel
- Finnish: merkeli (fi)
- French: marne (fr) f
- Gaulish: marga, acaunomarga
- Georgian: მერგელი (mergeli)
- German: Mergel (de) m
- Hungarian: márga (hu)
- Ido: marno (io)
- Indonesian: napal (id)
- Irish: marla f, móta liath m
- Italian: marna (it) f
- Japanese: 泥灰土 (でいかいど, deikaido)
- Kazakh: мергель (mergel)
- Korean: 이회암 (ihoeam)
- Kyrgyz: мергель (mergel)
- Latin: marga f
- Limburgish: mergel
- Lithuanian: purmuo m, mergelis m
- Malagasy: sokaidîtra (mg), marna (mg)
- Middle English: marle
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: mergel m
- Nynorsk: mergel m
- Polish: margiel (pl) m
- Portuguese: marga (pt) f
- Romanian: marnă (ro) f
- Russian: ме́ргель (ru) m (mérgelʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ла̏пор m, ла̏порац m
- Roman: lȁpor m, lȁporac m
- Slovak: slieň m, slieňovec m
- Slovene: lapor (sl) m
- Spanish: marga (es) f
- Swedish: märgel (sv) c
- Tajik: мергел (mergel)
- Thai: ดินสอพอง (th) (din-sŏr pong)
- Turkish: marn (tr)
- Ukrainian: ме́ргель m (mérhelʹ)
- Uzbek:
- Cyrillic: мергель (uz)
- Roman: mergel (uz)
- Vietnamese: macnơ
- Walloon: måle (wa) f
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See also
Verb
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
Verb
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
Etymology 3
Borrowed from Nyunga maarl.[2]
Noun
marl (plural marls)
- (Australia) A species of bandicoot, Perameles myosurus, of southern Western Australia.
- Synonym: western barred bandicoot
References
Anagrams
Middle English
Noun
marl
- Alternative form of marle