silt

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An' then come 'long 'bout the fust of July, an' ye go out an' stan' there and look for the silt--an' what d' ye see?

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  1. noun A sedimentary material consisting of very fine particles intermediate in size between sand and clay.
  2. intransitive verb To become filled with silt: an old channel that silted up.
  3. transitive verb To fill, cover, or obstruct with silt: River sediments gradually silted the harbor.

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  • "The body may have sunk or been buried under silt, which is why nothing was found during the air search on Monday."
  • California's 1,400 dams share a common destiny -- silt-up and become a dysfunction waterfall. —  Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS Newsfeed
  • But the flows also sweep away the silt, and that helps the species as a whole. —  Coyote Crossing
  • Sedimentary rock forms when the wind and rain breaks rock into small particles of sand, silt, and clay that pile up into layers of rock. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • The creases of his palm were black and lined with fine silt, and his fingertips were growing numb with the cold and the wet. —  the torture garden
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  1. Middle English cylte, probably of Scandinavian origin; see sal- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Middle English silte, erroneously cilte; with formative -t, from silen, drain, filter, strain: see sile.
  2. from silt, n.
 

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