v. Obs. [f. It. atterrare ‘to fill or dam vp with earth’ (Florio, 1598), f. a to + terra earth. Cf. OF. aterrer, aterrir in same sense.] To fill up with earth, esp. with alluvial earth.
1673. Ray, Journ. Low Countr., 7. Filling up and atterrating (to borrow that word of the Italians) the skirts and borders of the Sea.
1757. Da Costa, in Phil. Trans., L. 234. If these effects proceed from local deluges, recedings of the sea, gulphs atterrated, &c. we should then indeed find marine remains.
