Crossword-Solution: MARL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Marl | v. t. | To cover, as part of a rope, with marline, marking a pecular hitch at each turn to prevent unwinding. |
| Marl | n. | 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. |
| Marl | n. | To overspread or manure with marl; as, to marl a field. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| MARL | anagram | LARM |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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greedy person
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Sentences with MARL (5)
First your stubborn lands And churlish hill-sides, where are thorny fields Of meagre marl and gravel, these delight In long-lived olive-groves to Pallas dear.
This is sadder and darker than the Volaterrae end because of an old marl-pit full of black water, where weepy, hairy moss hangs round the stumps of the willows and alders.
Would it not grieve a woman to be over-mastered with a piece of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I’ll none: Adam’s sons are my brethren; and truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.
Next we shall treat of the Land hereabouts, which is a Marl as red as Blood, and will lather like Soap.
Upon first descending into the chasm, that is to say, for a hundred feet downward from the summit of the hill, the sides of the abyss bore little resemblance to each other, and, apparently, had at no time been connected, the one surface being of the soapstone, and the other of marl, granulated with some metallic matter.
Quotes with MARL (3)
LEONATOWell, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband. BEATRICENot till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.
So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the "burning marl." Old wives' tales! There's no need for red-hot pokers. Hell is — other people!
Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth. Roll up that tender air and the plant dies, the colour fades. The earth we walk on is a parched cinder. It is marl we tread and fiery cobbles scorch our feet. By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. ‘Tis waking that kills us.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 136 times in crossword archives (1951–2018).