silt
noun/sɪlt/
/sɪlt/
[uncountable]- sand, mud, etc. that is carried by flowing water and is left at the mouth of a river or in a harbour
- The wreck was covered in a fine layer of silt.
- The tunnel had been blocked with silt.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- fine
- deposit
- layer
- deposit
- remove
- be covered in
- …
- deposit
- with silt
Word Originlate Middle English: probably originally denoting a salty deposit and of Scandinavian origin, related to Danish and Norwegian sylt ‘salt marsh’, also to salt.Definitions on the go
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