malm

Meaning

Noun

• A soft, crumbly, chalky, grayish limestone.
• An artificial mixture or chalk, clay, and sand, from which bricks are made. The resulting bricks have a light brown or yellowish color.

Origin

• From Middle English malme, from Old English mealm (as in mealmstān), from Proto-Germanic *malmaz ("sand, ore"); related to Old Norse malmr. From the same Proto-Indo-European root as meal.