1. silt - Noun
2. silt - Verb
Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.
To choke, fill, or obstruct with silt or mud.
To flow through crevices; to percolate.
Source: Webster's dictionaryMusic, I think, is best when it honestly explores personal demons, and it stirs around in the silt of the psyche to find out what's really there. Tom Morello
The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit. John Joly
...only those who have been really dry know that there is no drink like chaggle water, brackish, chlorinated, with a fine earthy silt at the bottom, pure Gunga Din juice. We hated it and would have sold our souls for it. George MacDonald Fraser
The river silted up Source: Internet
“Accordingly the only solution is to ensure that existing gullies are cleaned of silt and leaves on a much more frequent basis at this known ‘hot spot’ which is, of course, a key route in Broughty Ferry.” Source: Internet
After the Hurricane Katrina disaster there were proposals to remedy the environment by pumping silt to the shore. Source: Internet