Dictionary Entry
marl
marl is a 4-letter English word with 4 senses as transitive verb and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To cover, as part of a rope, with marline, marking a pecular hitch at each turn to prevent unwinding. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 4 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To cover, as part of a rope, with marline, marking a pecular hitch at each turn to prevent unwinding.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
To overspread or manure with marl; as, to marl a field.
- 4noun
a loose and crumbling earthy deposit consisting mainly of calcite or dolomite; used as a fertilizer for soils deficient in lime
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