Synonym: silt up. Similar words: silty, wilt, jilt, lilt, kilt, hilt, tilt, filth. Meaning: [sɪlt] 
n. mud or clay or small rocks deposited by a river or lake. v. become chocked with silt.
n. mud or clay or small rocks deposited by a river or lake. v. become chocked with silt. 
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1 The water contains fine silt.
2 The lake was almost solid with silt and vegetation.
3 Silt and gravelly deposits had been left by the tide.
4 During the annual floods the river deposits its silt on the fields.
5 The plants provide shelter for animals, trap silt and draw nutrients from the water.
6 The peat and silt are rich soils on which farmers obtain high yields without using as much expensive artificial fertiliser as elsewhere.
7 The pores between silt particles are so small and retentive of water that tightly packed silt can not be emptied by drainage.
8 Silt, washed from deep forestry ploughing, smothers plants, endangering insect life and therefore fish survival also.
9 The silt is swirling, and no one seems sure which way is which.
10 In the silt I join the first footprints on new land, of two deer and an otter.
11 Their movements would have kicked up the fine silt carpet on the bottom of the lake, obscuring vision.
12 Alternatively dirt and silt could find their way back into the pond.
13 A comparable soil and silt horizon with charcoal flecks was tentatively identified east of the road in Townsend Close.
14 Loam is a soil with roughly equal proportions of clay, sand and silt.
15 Here they become wider and slower and often carry considerable quantities of sand and silt.
16 This was a brown, evil-looking brew, topped by grey scum, with the taste and texture of fine silt.
17 Obviously, the same river flow that fills them with silt also brings in minerals and organic materials from elsewhere.
18 The downstream area, where people are being resettled,[www.Sentencedict.com] has problems enough without the additional burden of silt.
19 But as ships have become larger and the rivers have filled with mud and silt, their functions as ports have declined.
20 The hook type do not work in the soft silt of most coarse fish waters.
21 They have little to look forward to, save for fat legs, flopping in the silt of some riverine beach.
22 The rivers are infinitely renewable, at least until the reservoirs silt up or the climate changes.
23 Would it be possible, for example, to have a dredger clear all the silt, rubbish and vegetation?
24 Mudstone is a general term for rocks composed of more than 50 % clay and silt.
25 Most of her life was spent pushing barges loaded with silt dredged from the narrow canals around Birmingham.
26 It grows in shallow water in pools and ponds, most frequently on substrates ranging from sand to fine silt.
27 Nearer the sea and along the rivers the soils were all fine silt.
28 The waters are being polluted by mercury, oil and silt as a result of the mining.
29 The contents of the buckets run down chutes into hopper boats which take the silt away.
30 The crumbled porcelain of a third lay embedded like fossilized prehistoric remains long entombed in silt and mud.