How to pronounce silt

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What silt means

noun

Fine sand and mud carried along by moving water

In a sentence: After the flood, a layer of brown silt covered the whole garden.

Where it comes from: Perhaps from an old word meaning "to filter." It may also be related to old words for a salt marsh.

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