sul|lage

sul|lage «SUHL ihj», noun.

1. sewage: »

The people themselves feel the misery of having no channels to remove sullage away clear from every habitation (Florence Nightingale).

2. the silt washed down and deposited by a stream or flood.

3. (in founding) the scoria which rises to the surface of the molten metal in the ladle.

4. Obsolete. filth.

╂[earlier sollage, perhaps < unrecorded Anglo-French souillage < Old French souiller; see etym. under soil² (Cf. ↑soil). Compare etym. under soilage. (Cf. ↑soilage)]