'Sullage' definitions:

Definition of 'Sullage'

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  • Sullage \Sul"lage\, n. [Cf. Suillage, Sulliage.]
  • 1. Drainage of filth; filth collected from the street or highway; sewage. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • The streets were exceedingly large, well paved, having many vaults and conveyances under them for sullage. --Evelyn. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. That which sullies or defiles. [Obs.] [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. --South. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. (Founding) The scoria on the surface of molten metal in the ladle. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. (Hydraul. Engin.) Silt; mud deposited by water. [1913 Webster]
  • Sullage piece (Founding), the sprue of a casting. See Sprue, n., 1 (b) . [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'sullage'

From: GCIDE
  • Suillage \Su"il*lage\, n. [OF. souillage, soillage, fr. souiller, soiller. See Soil to stain, and cf. Sullage.] A drain or collection of filth. [Obs.] [Written also sulliage, and sullage.] --Sir H. Wotton. [1913 Webster]

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