Silt Definition

sĭlt
silted, silting, silts
noun
silts
Sediment suspended in stagnant water or carried by moving water, that often accumulates on the bottom of rivers, bays, etc., esp. such sediment with particles smaller than sand and larger than clay.
Webster's New World
Soil composed of 80 percent or more silt and less than 12 percent clay.
Webster's New World
Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.
Wiktionary
Material with similar physical characteristics, whatever its origins or transport.
Wiktionary

(geology) A particle from 3.9 to 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.

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verb
silted, silting
To become filled with silt.
An old channel that silted up.
American Heritage
To fill, cover, or choke up with silt.
Webster's New World

To flow through crevices; to percolate.

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Origin of Silt

  • From Middle English cylte, cognate with Norwegian and Danish sylt (“salt marsh") and Old English sealt (“salt")

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English probably of Scandinavian origin sal- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Silt Sentence Examples

  • This current catches the silt brought down by the rivers and projects it in long banks, or lidi, parallel with the shore.

  • Much of this silt is again carried away by the San Juan.

  • The immediate effect, which is highly beneficial, is the deposition of silt from the tide.

  • Considerable deposits of mud, silt and sand are accumulating in many of the estuaries.

  • If such a city was to be on the Egyptian coast, there was only one possible site, behind the screen of the Pharos island and removed from the silt thrown out by Nile mouths.

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Words Starting With

SSISIL

Words Ending With

TLTILT

Unscrambles

silt

Words Starting With S and Ending With T

Starts With S & Ends With TStarts With SI & Ends With TStarts With S & Ends With LT

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4 Letter Words4 Letter Words Starting With S4 Letter Words Ending With T