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sullage|ˈsʌlɪdʒ|
Forms: 6 sollage, 7 sulledge, 7–8 suillage, 8 sulli(d)ge, swillage, 7– sullage.
[Of uncertain origin. ? a. AF. *souillage, *soullage, *suillage, f. souiller soil v.1, sully v.: see -age. The synonymous soilage is perhaps due to a variant *soillage. In the 17th and 18th cent. the spelling was influenced by sully: see sulliage.]
1. Filth, refuse, esp. such as is carried off by drains from a house, farmyard, or the like; sewage.
1553in Vicary's Anat. (1888) App. iii. 176 To caraye awaye the Sollage of the Clensinge of the saide Stretes. 1609in Sussex Archæol. Coll. (1867) XIX. 199 Annoying the Bowrne wth the sulledge of his hoggs by a dyke. 1624Wotton Elem. Archit. (1672) 18 Under-conducts and Conveyances, for the Suillage of the House. 1748Dodsley Preceptor (1763) I. 180 The Apertures..are either Doors..or conduits for the Suillage. 1750W. Ellis Mod. Husbandm. I. i. 39 (E.D.S.) If..highway sullidge and dung are mixed together. 1879F. Nightingale in Jrnl. Indian Assoc. Art Educ. Oct., The people themselves feel the misery of having no channels to remove sullage away clear from every habitation.
†2. fig. Filth, filthiness, defilement, pollution.
1641S. Hinde in W. Hinde J. Bruen To Rdr., Free from the sullage of Envie, and detraction. 1673Lady's Call. ii. i. §7. 59 The lightest act of dalliance leaves somthing of stain and sullage behind it. 1697Evelyn Numismata ix. 309 The Soul contracts no sullage from the deformity of the Body.
3. The silt washed down and deposited by a stream or flood.
1691T. H[ale] Acc. New Inv. p. lxi, Such Shelfes arising in our River from the Gravel and Sullage that are wash'd into it. 1725Henley tr. Montfaucon's Antiq. Italy (ed. 2) 28 Several Strata of this Kind were form'd by the Suillage of Rivers and Torrents. 1733W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farm. 236 Sullidge which the Waters leaves on the Ground. 1755Gentl. Mag. XXV. 396 The swillage of rivers. 1800W. Chapman Witham & Welland 62 The bottom was found quite hard, and without sullage, from the Grand Sluice to Fishtoft-jetties. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 665.
4. Founding. Metal scoria or slag.
1843Holtzapffel Turning I. 349 The metal is..free from the scoria or sullage, which sometimes renders the upper surface very rough.
5. Comb.: sullage-piece (see quot. 1875); sullage-pipe, a drain-pipe.
1852Burn Naval & Milit. Dict. ii. 276/2 *Sullage piece, or dead head, masselotte. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 2452/2 Sullage-piece,..a dead-head, or feeding-head. A piece of metal on a casting which occupies the ingate at which the metal entered the mold... In this piece the sullage rises, hence its name.
1907‘J. Halsham’ Lonewood Corner 214 He reckons it's better for a man to be on the top of a stack than down a *sullage-pipe. |
