sullage
English
Noun
sullage (usually uncountable, plural sullages)
- The liquid discharges from kitchens, washbasins, toilets etc; sewage.
- Evelyn
- The streets were exceedingly large, well paved, having many vaults and conveyances under them for sullage.
- Evelyn
- Silt or sediment deposited from flowing water.
- That which sullies or defiles.
- South
- It is the privilege of the celestial luminaries to receive no tincture, sullage, or defilement from the most noisome sinks and dunghills here below.
- South
- (metallurgy) The scoria on the surface of molten metal in the ladle.
Derived terms
- sullage piece
References
- Water Supply & Sanitation - by M. Feroze Ahmed & Md. Mujibur Rahman
- OED 2nd edition 1989
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