In the Fen district of East Anglia: a raised silt bank consisting of the bed and levees of a former river or tidal creek, left above the general…

an elevated deposit of mud with a level surface.

Physical Geography. A conical or fan-shaped alluvial deposit formed by a stream where its bed becomes less steep; esp. a relatively small…

Physical Geogr. A fan-shaped or conical alluvial deposit formed by a stream or river where its bed becomes less steep (e.g. at the edge of a plain)…

Geology. A low broad ridge of water-laid sediment running along the side of a stream channel; also, any of various similar natural embankments…

a deposit of alluvium, having the approximate shape of a segment of a circle, laid down by a river at a point where the gradient decreases, as at…

Also in many technical uses. Geology. An outspread alluvial deposit, esp. one at the extremity of a glacier or the mouth of a river.

a sloping surface of sand spread out by an intermittent stream.

Physical Geography. A crescent-shaped strip of land formed of material deposited on the inside of a river meander. Cf. point bar n. at point, n.1…

(see quot. 1961).

a flow that covers a wide expanse of a surface instead of being confined in a channel.

(a) Weaving (in the Jacquard apparatus) one of the needles governing the warp-threads, by the motion of which the pattern is produced; (b) Physical…