Malm

Word MALM
Character 4
Hyphenation malm
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Malm"

What do we mean by malm?

A soft, crumbly, chalky, grayish limestone.

An artificial mixture or chalk, clay, and sand, from which bricks are made. The resulting bricks have a light brown or yellowish color.

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The word "malm" in example sentences

London; but the available supply of this has been used up, and at the present time an artificial "malm" is prepared by mixing an ordinary brick-clay with ground chalk. ❋ Various (N/A)

A very fine chalk-clay, or "malm" as it was locally called, was formerly obtained from the alluvium in the vicinity of ❋ Various (N/A)

She whispered in my ear that she wanted me to malm her vlookenhibber right in her sweet tookemburri. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Several sorts of malm stocks, which are superior in color and texture, are made, and are used for facing bricks and for cutting; and what are called paviors, which are dark and strong bricks, are also made. ❋ Various (N/A)

All styrka är från jorden, ifrån Ymers kropp; de vilda vattnen äro ådrorna däri, och hennes senor äro smidda utav malm. ❋ Esaias Tegn��r (1814)

To the south-west is a rank clay, that requires the labour of years to render it mellow; while the gardens to the north-east, and small enclosures behind, consist of a warm, forward, crumbling mould, called black malm, which seems highly saturated with vegetable and animal manure; and these may perhaps have been the original site of the town; while the woods and coverts might extend down to the opposite bank. ❋ Gilbert White (1756)

To the north-west, north and east of the village, is a range of fair enclosures, consisting of what is called a white malm, a sort of rotten or rubble stone, which, when turned up to the frost and rain, moulders to pieces, and becomes manure to itself. ❋ Gilbert White (1756)

These roads, running through the malm lands, are, by the traffic of ages, and the fretting of water, worn down through the first stratum of our freestone, and partly through the second; so that they look more like water-courses than roads; and are bedded with naked rag for furlongs together. ❋ Gilbert White (1756)

I also like how you worked with the malm dressers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A third fort is excellent, and refembles malm* fy, it being of the fame nature with that which grows in Teneriff: and another refembles Alicant wine, but is much inferior 'to it in taile, and is never drank alone, but mixed with the other forts, to which it gives a colour and ftrength to keep. ❋ Unknown (1790)

(as malm stocks also are) for arches of the more elaborate sort, where each brick is cut to its shape and rubbed true, and for mouldings, and even sometimes for carving. ❋ Various (N/A)

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