fluviationとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

fluviation (usually uncountable, plural fluviations)

1. (geology) Deposition of silt etc. by the action of a river or stream.
2. (obsolete) Preparation of flax by soaking it in a stream.
   • 1683, Thomas Browne, Certain Miscellany Tracts, page 54:

     This was the first preparation of Flax, and before fluviation or rotting.

参照

• “† fluviation, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2023.