sullage

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: sul=lage

CIDE DICTIONARY

sullage, n. [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)