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† atteˈrration Obs.
[n. of action f. prec.: see -ation.]
The action of filling up with earth; the washing up of alluvial soil.
1686Plot Staffordsh. 113 All valleys rise by atterration, i.e. by Earth continually brought down from the tops of Mountains by Rains and Snows. 1713Derham Phys-Theol. 53 No accidental Currents and Atterrations of the Waters themselves..could ever have made or found so long and commodious Declivities and Channels. 1757Da Costa in Phil. Trans. L. 235 Producible by local deluges, atterrations. |