rammed earth

noun

1. a mixture of sand, loam, clay, and other ingredients rammed hard within forms as a building material.

Word History and Origins

Origin of rammed earth¹

First recorded in 1825–35

Example Sentences

The back and side walls were made of two rows of bamboo a foot apart, with rammed earth between them.

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It was a cell five feet by three, within another, the intervening being filled with rammed earth to deaden the sound.

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The cone of rammed earth was apparently not reveted with stone.

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Rammed earth at box ends to be shaved down to a 45 degrees slope so as to splice in with new span of pis adjoining it.

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They lived in thatched houses constructed of rammed earth and plaster, with beaten floors on which dry grass was strewn as carpet.

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