Silts - English meaning
Silts – definitions in English dictionary
nounFine sand, clay, or other material carried by running water and deposited as a sediment, especially in a channel or harbour.
Usage examples:
Water continuing out over the playa surface carries with it a quantity of fine sand, silt, and clay…
verbBecome filled or blocked with silt.
Usage examples:
The river's mouth had silted up
phrasal verbTo become blocked with silt, or to cause something to become blocked with silt
Usage examples:
The harbour silted up many years ago.
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Word origin
late Middle English: probably originally denoting a salty deposit and of Scandinavian origin, related to Danish and Norwegian sylt ‘salt marsh’, also to salt.
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