Alluvion

1. n. An accession of land gradually washed to the shore or bank by the flowing of water. See Accretion.
2. n. Wash or flow of water against the shore or bank.
3. n. An overflowing; an inundation; a flood.
4. n. Matter deposited by an inundation or the action of flowing water; alluvium.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.