Silt is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SILT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to fill with a fine sediment
• become filled or blocked with silt
• fill or block with silt
• To choke, fill, or obstruct with silt or mud.
• To flow through crevices; to percolate.
• become chocked with silt
• fill or be choked with silt
NOUN:
• fine sand, clay, or other material carried by running water and deposited as a sediment, especially in a channel or harbour.
• a bed or layer of silt.
• sediment whose particles are between clay and sand in size (typically 0.002–0.06 mm).
• mud deposited by moving water
• Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.
• mud or clay or small rocks deposited by a river or lake
• sediment whose particles are between clay and sand in size (typically 0.002–0.06 mm).
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to fill with silt (a sedimentary material)

Words related to SILT

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Words that contain SILT

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How to use SILT in a sentence

• Its soil, enriched by yearly deposits of silt, yields abundantly without the aid of manure.
• There it rests, together with other strata, which are sunk in the same way, until the channel is obstructed by the combined masses of ice and silt.
• The orchards fertilized by the silt of the recent flood looked more beautiful than ever.
• The sons agreed and they collected coolies and drained off the water and began to dig out the silt.
• Silt, sand, and every other kind of soil are swept from their natural positions and spritted away by the foaming waters as they surge down the steep slopes.
• The mute sands that silt up the ruins of old empires are eloquent of it.
• But if we make a chemical analysis of the finer silt we find that the composition is by no means that of the granite beneath.
• Thus if we dissolve sugar in water we find that, if anything, the silt settles more slowly in the sugar solution than in fresh water.
• During those times the silt from the great rivers would have been carried very far from the land.
• They are mixtures of clay, silt, some sand and large amounts of humus.
• These powers depend, as we learned in Chapter IV, on the texture of the soil or the relative amounts of sand, silt, clay and humus contained in the soil.
• It was found that the silt had become so firm that it did not flow into the opening.
• In making the initial examination, attention should be given to the removal of dirt, silt, grease and other foreign matter from the fingers.
• Egyptian clover has highest adaptation for deposit soils, such as are made by the settling of silt held in solution by waters that overflow.
• He must wait until the silt which clouded the water cleared.
• Thinking the shot was fatal, Paul seized the hunting knife and sprang forward to silt its throat, having first flung a lot of brush on the smoldering fire.
• The canon stream ran clear again now that the storm-washed silt had settled.
• The quantity of silt which enters the drain depends very much on the soil.
• To provide against this, a silt-basin must be placed at this point which will collect the silt and prevent its entrance into the more nearly level tile below.
• Sometimes the early deposit of silt will nearly fill the tile, and it will take the water of several storms to wash it out.
• Examinations of newly laid drains have developed many instances where tiles were at first half filled with silt, and three months later were entirely clean.
• The obstruction, if by silt, is the result of a too sluggish flow, and to enlarge the area of the conduit would only increase the difficulty.
• In wide streams, partial obstructions of the water course will sometimes induce the deposit of silt in such quantities as will greatly assist the work.
• The country itself was an alluvial plain, formed by the silt deposited each year by the Tigris and Euphrates.
• Now they reached a sort of strange little gully, here the silt had washed down more heavily ring the period of erosion than at any other lace.
• The sand was hard enough and offered sufficient resistance to the broad hoof of a horse, but if one stood still for a minute or so, it began gradually to silt up and bury it.
• Annual floods left their silt deposits to deepen the soil along the lower reaches of the river.
• An equal amount of this wearing action upon clay will reduce it to a fine impalpable silt.
• As one thinks of the small amount of sediment held in a gallon or two of river water, a comprehension of this vast amount of silt is impossible.
• The Nile mud and the desert sand had combined to silt it up.
• Each influx brings strange seeds on its flood, strange silt and weeds, and now and then a flower of rare promise.

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