sullage
Noun
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Noun
sullage (uncountable)
- The liquid discharges from kitchens, washbasins, toilets etc; sewage.
- The streets were exceedingly large, well paved, having many vaults and conveyances under them for sullage.
- Silt or sediment deposited from flowing water.
- That which sullies or defiles.
- It is the privilege of the celestial luminaries to receive no tincture, sullage, or defilement from the most noisome sinks and dunghills here below.
- (metallurgy) The scoria on the surface of molten metal in the ladle.
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