desilted









desilted


noun

  1. earthy matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment.

verb (used without object)

  1. to become filled or choked up with silt.

verb (used with object)

  1. to fill or choke up with silt.

noun

  1. a fine deposit of mud, clay, etc, esp one in a river or lake

verb

  1. (usually foll by up) to fill or become filled with silt; choke
n.

mid-15c., originally “sediment deposited by seawater,” probably from a Scandinavian source (cf. Norwegian and Danish sylt “salt marsh”), or from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch silte, sulte “salt marsh, brine,” from Proto-Germanic *sultjo- (cf. Old English sealt, Old High German sulza “saltwater,” German Sulze “brine”), from PIE *sal- (see salt (n.)).

v.

“to become choked with silt” (of river channels, harbors, etc.), 1799, from silt (n.). Related: Silted; silting.

  1. A sedimentary material consisting of grains or particles of disintegrated rock, smaller than sand and larger than clay. The diameter of the particles ranges from 0.0039 to 0.0625 mm. Silt is often found at the bottom of bodies of water where it accumulates slowly by settling through the water.
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