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loam verb. E17.
[from the noun.]
verb trans. Cover or plaster with loam. E17-E18.
verb intrans. & trans. Search (a region) for gold by washing the loam from the foot of a hill until the increasing number of gold grains leads to the lode. Austral. E20.