Erosion
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The gradual eating away of the soil by the operation of currents or tides.
100 N. Y. 433.
It is distinguished from submergence (q. v.), and opposed to alluvion (q. v.)