loam

(lom), v. t [ with loam; clay. With the ashes of bones tempered with oile, Camels haire, and a clay they have, they Zome them so well that no weather will pierce them. Capt. John Smith, True Travels, I. 32. The joist ends and girders, which be in the walls, must be loamed all over to preserve them from the corroding of the mortar. F', Moxon, Mechanical Exercises.