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marls, plural;
  1. Fasten with marline or other light rope; wind marline around (a rope), securing it with a half hitch at each turn

Noun
  1. An unconsolidated sedimentary rock or soil consisting of clay and lime, formerly used typically as fertilizer

  1. a loose and crumbling earthy deposit consisting mainly of calcite or dolomite; used as a fertilizer for soils deficient in lime
  2. Marl may refer to: *Marl, calcium carbonate or lime-rich sedimentary rock *Marl, North Rhine-Westphalia, a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany *Marl, Lower Saxony, a municipality in Lower Saxony, Germany *Marl Kingdom, a series of RPGs created by Nippon-Ichi *Marled yarn is made from strands ...
  3. (Marled) Yarn is a long continuous length of interlocked fibres, suitable for use in the production of textiles, sewing, crocheting, knitting, weaving, embroidery and ropemaking. Thread is a type of yarn intended for sewing by hand or machine. ...
  4. 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; To cover, as part of a rope, with marline, marking a peculiar hitch at each turn to prevent unwinding
  5. (Marled) Typically found in sweaters, marled yarn occurs when two colored yards are twisted together.
  6. To wrap a small line around another.
  7. a soft carbonate rock composed of an admixture of fine-grained calcite and clay. See argillaceous limestone
  8. Friable mixture of subequal amounts of micrite and clay minerals
  9. A soft, earthy, crumbling stratum of varying composition.
  10. A calcareous clay, or impure fine grained limestone.
  11. A granular or loosely consolidated, earthly material composed largely of calcium carbonate as seashell fragments. It contains varying amounts of silt and organic matter.
  12. a friable earthy deposit consisting of clay and calcium carbonate, as floating suspended in murky or turbid waters, and coating anything drawn from those waters; an archaic term for earth or soil. ...
  13. general term for any soil which combines clay and lime.
  14. A multi-colored yarn in which component plies may be of different colors.
  15. A loose soil of clays and calcium carbonate (CuCO3).
  16. A deposit of calcium carbonate resulting from biotically induced changes in the carbonate-bicarbonate balance in freshwater basins; also as a result of evaporation or abrupt changes in temperature causing the escape of carbon dioxide from soluble calcium bicarbonate and the formation of ...
  17. A crumbly mixture of clays, calcium and magnesium carbonates, and remnants of shells, used as fertilizer for lime-deficient soils; designated as calcareous, clayey, or sandy
  18. fine-grained carbonate-rich mud; a calcareous clay which contains approximately 30 to 65 percent calcium carbonate
  19. weakly cohesive sedimentary material consisting dominantly of well mixed argillaceous and calcareous matter, each forming at least a quarter of the mixture.
  20. "Marl" is a term loosely applied to a variety of materials, mostly of which occur as loose, earthy deposits consisting chiefly of an intimate mixture of clay and calcium carbonate, formed under marine conditions or especially freshwater conditions; specifically marls are earthy substances ...
  21. A sedimentary rock or soil consisting of clay and lime, formerly used typically as fertilizer.
  22. Marl is clay which has a content of calcium carbonate and was used to improve the fertility of arable land, especially in areas of sandy glacial drift. Marl pits often flooded as clay is impervious to water.
  23. an acidic, crumbly clay and limestone soil that also contains shells; typical of Cote d'Or in Burgundy.
  24. In soil, refers to a mixture of clay and limestone