siltage
English
Noun
siltage (uncountable)
- A mass of silt.
- 1992, Donald Davidson, The Tennessee: The New River: Civil War to TVA, page 290:
- In some areas it was serious, and it caused siltage. The effect of siltage on reservoirs was to reduce their efficiency. The authority estimated, in 1936, that about one third of the storage capacity of the Hales Bar Reservoir had been lost to siltage in twenty-three years.
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References
“siltage” in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.
Anagrams
- Glasite, agilest, aiglets, ligates