Category:Sludge

Sludge, n. Etym: [cf. Slush.]

1. Mud; mire; soft mud; slush. Mortimer. Tennyson.

2. Small floating pieces of ice, or masses of saturated snow. Kane.

3. (mining)

Defn: see slime, 4. Sludge hole, the hand-hole, or manhole, in a Steam boiler, by means of which sediment can be removed.