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Definition of Detritions
1. detrition [n] - See also: detrition
Lexicographical Neighbors of Detritions
Literary usage of Detritions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Progress of America, from the Discovery by Columbus to the Year 1846 by John Macgregor (1847)
"... as possible on the alluvions shores of the river, as the best means of protecting
the banks from the abrasions and detritions occasioned by the current. ..."
2. The Letters of Pliny the Consul: With Occasional Remarks by Pliny, William Melmoth (1796)
"... which is the meaning of ''buffering their names to be thrown into an " nrn ;"
an urn being made ufe of in detritions of this kind. ..."
3. Bulletin of the Geological Institutions of the University of Uppsala by Uppsala universitet Geologiska institutionen (1897)
"With a view of ascertaining this question (on the course of Detritions above
mentioned) Mr. GRAY and I collected a series of fresh samples of clay in situ ..."
4. Suffolk Deeds by Suffolk County (Mass.), John Tyler Hassam (1892)
"... on the Northerly side of it & both ends butting on the Detritions in the Cow
walke & fine acres Lieing betwixt Richard Bakers Land on the Southerly side ..."
5. Annual Report of the American Institute of the City of New York (1850)
"... silicious gravel, and among clay as fine sand ; alumina usually in the form
of clay, and these are supposed to be formed by detritions worn from rocks, ..."
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