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silt

Sediment intermediate in coarseness between clay and sand; its grains have a diameter of 0.002–0.02 mm/0.00008–0.0008 in. Silt is usually deposited in rivers, and so the term is often used generically to mean a river deposit, as in the silting-up of a channel.



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I will wrap him in sand, and pour tons of shingle round him, so that the Achaeans shall not know how to gather his bones for the silt in which I shall have hidden him, and when they celebrate his funeral they need build no barrow.
The Iliad by Homer View in context
For me, a stream that leaves good silt on my land suffices, and I thank Bhumia, the God of the Home-stead.
Kim by Kipling, Rudyard View in context
Indian rivers are nearly always moving about in their beds, and will shift, sometimes, as much as two or three miles in a season, drowning the fields on one bank, and spreading good silt on the other.
The Second Jungle Book by Kipling, Rudyard View in context
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