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What does alluvion mean?

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Noun
  1. (law) The increase in the area of land due to the deposition of sediment (alluvium) by a river.
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Thou hast broken from the hills that enchained thee, and now rollest far and free, cleaving a wide way through thine own alluvion.
I examined the contents with great care and found a few grains of gold in the alluvion!
As the alluvion is carried on, the slope of the stream will become steeper and steeper the higher one goes.
The cypress begins near the mouth of the Ohio and spreads through the alluvion portions of the Lower Valley.
We concluded that it would be consistent with the doctrines of alluvion and avulsion if ownership of the land in question was not affected by reclamation.
A fertile river which has always borne alluvion and culture, stones and history helping to write as one, the different river-side territories.

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