Marled vs. Merled — What's the Difference?

(chiefly of yarn or fabric) mottled or streaked

With a coat in a merle pattern.

A crumbly mixture of clays, calcium and magnesium carbonates, and remnants of shells that is sometimes found under desert sands and used as fertilizer for lime-deficient soils.

A yarn, especially a cotton yarn, having plies of different colors twisted together.

To fertilize with such a mixture.

Made from this yarn

Mottled, streaked, multicoloured.

Simple past tense and past participle of marl