Word Study
Sullage
CIDE DICTIONARY
- 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]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Sullage, n. filth, refuse, sewage.
Etymology
perh. f. AF suillage f. souiller SOIL(2)
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