Sullage

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Noun
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sul=lage

CIDE DICTIONARY

Sullagen. [Cf. Suillage, Sulliage.].
  •  Drainage of filth; filth collected from the street or highway; sewage.  [1913 Webster]
    "The streets were exceedingly large, well paved, having many vaults and conveyances under them for sullage."  [1913 Webster]
  •  That which sullies or defiles.  [1913 Webster]
    "It is the privilege of the celestial luminaries to receive no tincture, sullage, or difilement from the most noisome sinks and dunghills here below."  [1913 Webster]
  •  The scoria on the surface of molten metal in the ladle.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Silt; mud deposited by water.  [1913 Webster]
Sullage piece (Founding), the sprue of a casting. See Sprue, n., 1 (b).

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Sullage, n. filth, refuse, sewage.

Etymology
perh. f. AF suillage f. souiller SOIL(2)

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