SILT

silt

(noun) mud or clay or small rocks deposited by a river or lake

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

silt (countable and uncountable, plural silts)

(uncountable) Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.

Synonym: slitch

(uncountable, by extension) Material with similar physical characteristics, whatever its origins or transport.

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

Verb

silt (third-person singular simple present silts, present participle silting, simple past and past participle silted)

(transitive) To clog or fill with silt.

(intransitive) To become clogged with silt.

(ambitransitive) To flow through crevices; to percolate.

Anagrams

• &lits, List, list, lits, slit, tils

Source: Wiktionary

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Silt, n. Etym: [OE. silte gravel, fr. silen to drain, E. sile; probably of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. sila, prob. akin to AS. seón to filter, sigan to fall, sink, cause to sink, G. seihen to strain, to filter, OHG. sihan, Icel.sia, Skr. sic to pour; cf. Gr. Sig, Sile.]

Definition: Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.

Silt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Silted; p. pr. & vb. n. Silting.]

Definition: To choke, fill, or obstruct with silt or mud.

Silt, v. i.

Definition: To flow through crevices; to percolate.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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