Home › Words › S › sammelsammelsammel means mixed with lime for mortar.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, sammel ranks #27,093 of 42,747 for Qualifying.EtymologyUncertain. Perhaps ultimately from Old English *samǣlan (“to half-burn”), from sam- (“half-, partly”) + ǣlan (“to burn”).adjMixed with lime for mortar.Imperfectly burnt; (by extension) soft and crumbling.nounSandy gravel; loamy gravel used for puddling.Gravelly yellow clay.A brick in a kiln that is crumbly due to not being thoroughly burned, usually one that lies outermost.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.grummel 64% match — Mud, sediment. vs sammel →bleicherde 59% match — A kind of grey loamy sand. vs sammel →sandyish 59% match — Somewhat sandy. vs sammel →puddingstone 56% match — A conglomerate stone consisting of pebbles surrounded by cement. vs sammel →areniferous 56% match — Sandy. vs sammel →graveled 55% match — Covered with gravel. vs sammel →graveliferous 55% match — Containing gravel. vs sammel →gravel 55% match — Small fragments of rock, used for laying on the beds of roads and railways, and as ballast. vs sammel →