See Also: Silt(medicine)
silt(1)(dictionary)
silt(2)(dictionary)
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silt 1, noun(dictionary)
silt 2, verb(dictionary)

Bob (oh) and silt(1) (iou)


Bob (oh)



n
Bob's your uncle!
BrE spoken used to say that something will be easy to do
::Just copy the disk, and Bob's your uncle!

silt(1) (iou)



silt noun. LME.
[Prob. orig. denoting a salty deposit, and so perh. from a Scandinavian word repr. by Norwegian, Danish sylt, Norwegian and Swedish dial. sylta salt-marsh, sea-beach, corresp. to Old Low German sulta (Low German sulte, sulte; Dutch zult), Old High German sulza (German Sulze) salt-marsh, salt-pan, brine, from Germanic base also of SALT noun1.]
Fine sand, clay, or Other soil carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment on the bottom or on a shore or flood plain. LME.
b. A bed or layer of this. Usu. in pl. L19.
c. spec. in Soil Science. (Material consisting of) particles whose sizes fall within a specified range (typically 0.002-0.06 mm) between those of sand and clay; soil having a specified proportion of such particles. L19.
In full silt-snapper. = silk snapper s.v. SILK noun. W. Indies. M19.
Comb.: silt-snapper: see sense 3 above; siltstone Geology a fine-grained sandstone whose particles are of the size of silt (sense 1c).
silty adjective consisting of, resembling, or containing silt M17.