sullage

Drainage of filth; filth collected from the street or highway; sewage.

The streets were exceedingly large, well paved, having many vaults and conveyances under them for sullage.

- Evelyn.

That which sullies or defiles.

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.

(Founding) The scoria on the surface of molten metal in the ladle.

(Hydraul. Engin.) Silt; mud deposited by water.

Sullage piece
b -	(Founding) the sprue of a casting. See Sprue, n., 1 (b).

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