Category:Sullage

Sul"lage, n. Etym: [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)

Defn: the scoria on the surface of molten metal in the ladle.

4. (hydraul. Engin.)

Defn: silt; mud deposited by water. Sullage piece (founding), the Sprue of a casting. See sprue, n., 1 (b).