- a friable earthy deposit consisting of clay and calcium carbonate, used especially as a fertilizer for soils deficient in lime.
- earth.
- to fertilize with marl.
- to wind (a rope) with marline, every turn being secured by a hitch.
- a fine-grained sedimentary rock consisting of clay minerals, calcite or aragonite, and silt: used as a fertilizer
- to fertilize (land) with marl
- to seize (a rope) with marline, using a hitch at each turn
