[lohm] /loʊm/

earth or soil.
Obsolete. clay or clayey earth.
verb (used with object)
to cover or stop with loam.
(transitive) to cover, treat, or fill with loam

Old English lam “clay, mud, mire, earth,” from Proto-Germanic *laimaz (cf. Old Saxon lemo, Dutch leem, German Lehm “loam”), from PIE root *(s)lei- “slimy” (see slime (n.)). As a type of highly fertile clayey soil, it is attested from 1660s. As a verb from c.1600.


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