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Answer for the clue "Sedimentary stuff ", 4 letters:
lees

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French lies , plural of lie "sediment," probably from Celtic (compare Old Irish lige "a bed, a lying"), from PIE root *legh- "to lie" (see lie (v.2)).

Usage examples of lees.

Frequent mention is made of sour galls, aleppo galls, green and blue vitriol, the lees of wine, black amber, sugar, fish-glue and a host of unimportant materials as being employed in the admixture of black inks.

Beany and Fatty and Nibby and Lees Moses and Whacker went home by the libary building, when the girls came out they dident pay enny attension to us becaus the high school fellers was there.

The Council of Seven was gathered in the audience hall of the Chancery, the round council table set just outside the curtained niche where Lees Obol lay.

And as for Lees Obol, his voice came to them plaintively from the curtained niche behind them.

Lees Obol, feeling himself fading away, chooses to recommend to the general that he vote for Ezasper Jorn as the next Protector of Man.

I have every reason to believe Lees Obol will live for two or three years yet.

Jondrigar, knowing that unless Lees Obol himself contradicted what Tharius had just said, Pamra Don was as good as in his hands.

Lees Obol must be better served, and he could be better served only if man were better served.

If one was to get any sense out of Lees Obol, the very early morning was the only possible time, though in recent months even that was unlikely.

And then Lees Obol, with Shavian Bossit to take his place as Protector of Manthree votes in the council guaranteed: Bormas, Glamdrul, and his ownand the assembly already primed to vote for him.

She abjured Gendra Mitiar with great passion to free these men as Lees Obol would require of her.

When they met, the body of Lees Obol had already been removed and there was no smell at all.

And when that is done, I will return to take up this great office, which Lees Obol intended from my birth.

She had not spoken to Lees Obol yet, and when she did, perhaps he would believe her all at once as the general had done.

Lees Obol dead, and none caring that he lay all alone on the catafalque in the ceremonial square.