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outwash noun. L19.
[from OUT- + WASH noun.]
Geology. Material such as sand, gravel, silt, etc., carried out from a glacier by melt water and deposited beyond the end moraine.
attrib.: outwash deposit, outwash gravel, outwash plain, etc.