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Silted

Silt \Silt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Silted; p. pr. & vb. n. Silting.] To choke, fill, or obstruct with silt or mud.

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silted

vb. (en-past of: silt)

Usage examples of "silted".

At that time, it had five harbours which now have entirely silted up and disappeared.

Mill-dams stood longer, but, as the ponds silted up, the current flowed round and even through the mill-houses, which, going by degrees to ruin, were in some cases undermined till they fell.

These and the iron bridges likewise were overthrown, and presently quite disappeared, for the very foundations were covered with the sand and gravel silted up.

Some say, then, that the first beginning of the change was because the sea silted up the entrances to the ancient ports, and stopped the vast commerce which was once carried on.

It is certainly true that many of the ports are silted up, and are now useless as such, but whether the silting up preceded the disappearance of the population, or whether the disappearance of the population, and the consequent neglect caused the silting, I cannot venture to positively assert.

Easiest to harvest them, slurping them up in seas of seawater then silted sideways out of rubbery slobbery lips, leaving only solids to swallow.

Her work was based in millimeters - so many layers of history silted atop each other, the corner of an artifact millennia old found protruding from a given layer dusted and coaxed out of its centuries of grit with minuscule picks and soft brushes until it saw sunlight for the first time since the pharaohs died.

He did not move to save himself, though chips of masonry silted his hair, and the floor under his boots heaved and buckled.

To descend would in fact be more dangerous, with the ascent screws removed and the snow silted deep in the hollows.