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Meaning of SULLAGE

 
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Sul"lage\, n. [Cf. {Suillage}, {Sulliage}.]
1. Drainage of filth; filth collected from the street or
   highway; sewage. [Obs.]

         The streets were exceedingly large, well paved,
         having many vaults and conveyances under them for
         sullage.                              --Evelyn.

2. That which sullies or defiles. [Obs.]

         It is the privilege of the celestial luminaries to
         receive no tincture, sullage, or difilement from the
         most noisome sinks and dunghills here below.
                                               --South.

3. (Founding) The scoria on the surface of molten metal in
   the ladle.

4. (Hydraul. Engin.) Silt; mud deposited by water.

{Sullage piece} (Founding), the sprue of a casting. See
   {Sprue}, n., 1
   (b) .

 

 

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