n. [ Cf. Suillage, Sulliage. ]
The streets were exceedingly large, well paved, having many vaults and conveyances under them for sullage. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]
It is the privilege of the celestial luminaries to receive no tincture, sullage, or difilement from the most noisome sinks and dunghills here below. South. [ 1913 Webster ]
Sullage piece (Founding),
n. [ OF. eullage, ouillage, the filling up of a cask, fr. ouillier, oillier, euillier, to fill a wine cask; properly, to add oil to prevent evaporation, as to a flask that is nearly full, fr. OF. oile oil. See Oil. ] (Com.) The amount which a vessel, as a cask, of liquor lacks of being full; wantage; deficiency. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OF. eullage, ouillage, the filling up of a cask, fr. ouillier, oillier, euillier, to fill a wine cask; properly, to add oil to prevent evaporation, as to a flask that is nearly full, fr. OF. oile oil. See Oil. ] (Com.) The amount which a vessel, as a cask, of liquor lacks of being full; wantage; deficiency. [ 1913 Webster ]