sullage

[ suhl-ij ]

noun

1. refuse or waste; sewage.
2. silt; sediment.

sullage

/ ˈsʌlɪdʒ /

noun

1. filth or waste, esp sewage
2. sediment deposited by running water

Word History and Origins

Origin of sullage¹

First recorded in 1545–55; origin uncertain

Word History and Origins

Origin of sullage¹

C16: perhaps from French souiller to sully; compare Old English sol mud

Example Sentences

One day in early November, I followed several young men down a warren of sandy alleyways, veined by rivulets of sullage, that wound through West Point, the slum to which Fahnbulleh and her husband had been taken.

From The New Yorker

Sullage, sul′āj, n. the floating scum on molten metal: silt: anything which sullies.

From Project Gutenberg

The imagination of the Commissioners riots in such a sea of sullage, that nothing short of an arched avalanche of refuse water presents itself to the minds of the functionaries who will not stoop to anything short of an aqueduct, and consequently have souls above the making of a common useful drain.

From Project Gutenberg

They ask leave to bore ten feet lower, to prevent the possibility of what they call "a choking with sullage."

From Project Gutenberg

In Rivers, that run thro' boggy Places, the Sullage or Washings of such Soils are generally unwholsome as the nature of such Ground is; and so the Water becomes infected by that and the Effluvia or Vapour that accompanies such Water: So Ponds are surely good or bad, as they are under too much Cover or supply'd by nasty Drains, or as they stand situated or exposed to good and bad Airs.

From Project Gutenberg