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Sludge   /slədʒ/   Listen
noun
Sludge  n.  
1.
Mud; mire; soft mud; slush.
2.
Small floating pieces of ice, or masses of saturated snow.
3.
(Mining) See Slime, 4.
4.
Anything resembling mud or slush; as:
(a)
A muddy or slimy deposit from sweage.
(b)
Mud from a drill hole in boring.
(c)
Muddy sediment in a steam boiler.
(d)
Settling of cottonseed oil, used in making soap, etc.
(e)
A residuum of crude paraffin-oil distillation.
Sludge hole, the hand-hole, or manhole, in a steam boiler, by means of which sediment can be removed.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Sludge" Quotes from Famous Books



... a scrike, ma'am, an' I run, an' theer I sid Frank 'ad pecked i' the bruck an' douked under an' wuz drowndin', an' I jumped after 'im an' got 'out on 'im an' lugged 'im on to the bonk all sludge, an' I got 'im wham afore our Sam comen in—a good job it wuz for Sam as 'e wunna theer an' as Frank wunna drownded, for if 'e 'ad bin I should 'a' tore our Sam all to winder-rags, an' then 'e 'd ...
— English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day • Walter W. Skeat

... banks opened out, Nilssen gave him courses and cross bearings, dazing enough to the unprofessional ear, but easily stored in a trained seaman's brain. He discoursed in easy slang of the cut-offs, the currents, the sludge-shallows, the floods, and the other vagaries of the great river's course, and punctuated his discourse with draughts of Rabeira's wine, and comments on the tangled mass of black humanity under the ...
— A Master of Fortune • Cutcliffe Hyne

... a tenner, and Jack Robinson a tanner, And each according to his means respectively disbursed; And a letter in your humble servant's most seductive manner Was despatched to Sludge ...
— Successful Recitations • Various

... on his island to the learned physician Karshish and the highly cultured Cleon; those who have the full vision from John to Rabbi Ben Ezra; those who juggle with terms and creeds as does Bishop Blougram; and out and out frauds like Sludge the Medium. The church is represented by many men dissimilar in endowments, tastes, spiritual experiences, and aims. There are Italian prelates of every sort, from the worldly-minded Bishop of St. Praxed's, occupied in death with vain thoughts of lapis-lazuli and ...
— Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning • Robert Browning

... through the sludge, puffin' an' blowin' like a bally ole cart-'orse—strooth, it seemed miles! Talk abaht bee-utiful, ma'am, it ud 'a' done your 'eart good, it would really! Rats!—'Undreds on em, ma'am: I'm bitten clean through in places! 'Owever, I pushed my way through, somehow, 'oldin' my ...
— The Servant in the House • Charles Rann Kennedy


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