rammed earth

American  

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of rammed earth

First recorded in 1825–35

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rammed earth

At the moment it's derelict, but Goldsworthy explained his plans to create a rammed earth wall with a deep cavity in the middle, the size of a grave.

From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026

Together with BC Housing, UBC's Build Better Cluster is partnering with Indigenous communities to integrate rammed earth into the construction of new homes.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 23, 2024

Compared with the bare sections, biocrust-covered rammed earth was less porous and had higher shear strength and compressive strength, the team reports today.

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 7, 2023

With contact, however, came growing conflict as well, suggested in the archaeological record by the emergence of metalworking and cities defended by walls of rammed earth.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

It was roofless, but an inner chamber had been constructed—a cellar, so to speak—under the ground-floor, with a roof of its own of rammed earth many feet thick, supported by heavy beams.

From The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood by Griffiths, Arthur