[f. LOAM sb.]
1. trans. To cover or plaster with loam. ? Obs.
1600. Surflet, Country Farme, III. xviii. 460. After … loming the ioints and seames very well with gum and wax mixt together.
1630. Capt. Smith, Trav. & Adv., 25. With the ashes of bones tempered with oile, Camels haire, and a clay they have; they lome them so well, that no weather will pierce them.
1671. J. Webster, Metallogr., xi. 157. They diligently lome or daub up the pots with clay, or lute.
1703. Moxon, Mech. Exerc., 264. Girders which lye in the Walls, must be Loamed all over, to preserve them from the corroding of the Morter.
2. To dress with loam.
1842[?]. Lance, Cottage Farmer, 12. They are grown in the deep sands which have been loamed.
