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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

AVUL'SION, n. [L. avulsio, from avello, a and vello, to pull coinciding with Heb. to separate; Eng. pull.]
A pulling or tearing asunder; a rending or violent separation.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an abrupt change in the course of a stream that forms the boundary between two parcels of land resulting in the loss of part of the land of one landowner and a consequent increase in the land of another
2: a forcible tearing or surgical separation of one body part from another

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1622 a forcible separation or detachment: as a. a tearing away of a body part accidentally or surgically b. a sudden cutting off of land by flood, currents, or change in course of a body of water; especially one separating land from one person's property and joining it to another's

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a tearing away. 2 Law a sudden removal of land by a flood etc. to another person's estate. Etymology: F avulsion or L avulsio f. avellere avuls- pluck away

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Avulsion A*vul"sion, n. [L. avulsio.] 1. A tearing asunder; a forcible separation. The avulsion of two polished superficies. --Locke. 2. A fragment torn off. --J. Barlow. 3. (Law) The sudden removal of lands or soil from the estate of one man to that of another by an inundation or a current, or by a sudden change in the course of a river by which a part of the estate of one man is cut off and joined to the estate of another. The property in the part thus separated, or cut off, continues in the original owner. --Wharton. Burrill.