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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: mäl, IPA: /mɑːl/
• (General American) enPR: märl, IPA: /mɑɹl/
• 韻: -ɑː(ɹ)l

語源 1

From 中期英語 marle, from Old French marle, from Late Latin margila, diminutive of marga (“marl”). Doublet of marla.

名詞

marl (countable and uncountable, plural marls)

1. 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.
   • 1625, attributed to Gervase Markham, “A Discourse of the Weald of Kent; and a Comparison of the Arable Lands therein, with the Other Parts of the Shire: Together with Some Necessary Counsels for the Ordering and Inriching of the Marleable Lands in the Weald, or Generally in Any Part of this Kingdome”, in The Inrichment of the Weald of Kent: Or, A Direction to the Husbandman, for the True Ordering, Manuring, and Inriching of All the Grounds within the Wealds of Kent and Sussex, […], London: […] G[eorge] P[urslowe] for Roger Iackson, […], →OCLC, pages 7–8:

     Marle is indeed, as it is in name, the fat or (marrovv) of the earth: […] it is therfore a fat, oyly and vnctious ground, lying in the belly of the earth, vvhich is of vvarme and moiſt temperature, and ſo moſt fertill, ſeeing that heat and moyſture be the father and mother of generation and grovvth; […] Foure ſorts of Marle be found in this VVeald, knovvne aſunder by the difference of colours, and thereby alſo differing in degrees of goodneſſe one from the other: […]

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC:

     ... uneasie steps / Over the burning Marle, not like those steps / On Heavens Azure...

   • 1952 July, W. R. Watson, “Sankey Viaduct and Embankment”, in Railway Magazine, pages 486-487:

     Mr. Greenshields was the contractor selected to build the embankment, and over a hundred thousand tons of marl and moss compacted with brushwood were used in its construction.

   • 1955, Robert Herman Bogue, The chemistry of portland cement, page 39:

     Important marl and marine-shell deposits are worked in Michigan, Virginia, and Florida.

   • 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 231:

     The surroundings were unearthly. It was not a fish setting—only bare rock, no trees, pungent sagebrush, and marl dust floating when a truck passed.

   • 2004, Peter Porter, “Why Did Dante Pick on Suicides”, in Afterburner:

     Those loved unhappy shades whom Dante turned / To sticks and marl

別の表記

• marle

派生語

参考

• greensand

動詞

marl (third-person singular simple present marls, present participle marling, simple past and past participle marled)

1. (transitive) To cover (the ground) with marl (noun sense).
   • 1625, attributed to Gervase Markham, “A Discourse of the Weald of Kent; and a Comparison of the Arable Lands therein, with the Other Parts of the Shire: Together with Some Necessary Counsels for the Ordering and Inriching of the Marleable Lands in the Weald, or Generally in Any Part of this Kingdome”, in The Inrichment of the Weald of Kent: Or, A Direction to the Husbandman, for the True Ordering, Manuring, and Inriching of All the Grounds within the Wealds of Kent and Sussex, […], London: […] G[eorge] P[urslowe] for Roger Iackson, […], →OCLC, page 5:

     [I]n this ſhort time vve haue ſeene many arable grounds, vvhich for ſundry yeeres after the marling of them, haue plentifully borne VVheat and other Graine, to be novv become vnfruitfull, and ſo vvill they continue, albeit they ſhould novv [be] marled againe. And this commeth to paſſe by the ignorance of the right manner of ordering the Marle, […]

語源 2

動詞

marl (third-person singular simple present marls, present participle marling, simple past and past participle marled)

1. (nautical) To cover, as part of a rope, with marline, marking a peculiar hitch at each turn to prevent unwinding.

   Synonym: marline

語源 3

Borrowed from Nyunga maarl.

名詞

marl (plural marls)

1. (Australia) A species of bandicoot, Perameles myosurus, of southern Western Australia.

   Synonym: western barred bandicoot

参照

アナグラム

• RAML