All 6 Uses of
loam
in
Eldest, by Christopher Paolini
- ....Where is your manhood, loam breaker?†
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- Beside her, Sloan hacked at the soft loam with a furious, obsessive energy, as if he were attempting to tear open the earth's skin, to peel back its clay hide and expose the muscle beneath.†
- One tree bulged at the base to form a two-story house before sinking its roots into the loam.†
- Roran strung his bow and planted three goose-feather arrows upright in the loam, within easy reach, then wrapped himself in a blanket and curled against the rockface to his left.†
- For almost a minute, the deer bounded past Roran, mincing the loam with their sharp hooves and catching the moonlight with their white-rimmed eyes.†
- Unlike during one of Saphira's dives, he retained his sense of weight, as if he still stood upon the loam below.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(loam) a rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much less commonly, loam can refer to a mix of soil and straw used to make bricks or plaster walls. In that form, it can also be used as a verb--for example, "She loamed the wall."