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noun

Sludge n.

Mud; mire; soft mud; slush.

Small floating pieces of ice, or masses of saturated snow.

(Mining) See Slime, 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.

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Etymology of 'Sludge'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sludge" Quotes from Famous Books

... stream's oxygen is used up by the process of decay and the stream, which is an intricately complex work of living things, begins to die. Under really bad conditions, the waste solids themselves cannot all be assimilated, and hence may build up in layers of stinking sludge at the bottom of the stream and continue to seize available oxygen for ...

— The Nation's River - The Department of the Interior Official Report on the Potomac • United States Department of the Interior

... hollow swamp; may a good bridge take its place designed to thy fancy, on which e'en the Salian dances may be sustained: for the which grant to me, Colonia, greatest of gifts glee-exciting. Such an one, townsman of mine, I want from thy bridge to be pitched in the sludge head over heels, right where the lake of all its stinking slime is dankest and most superfluent—a deep-sunk abyss. The man is a gaping gaby! lacking the sense of a two-years-old baby dozing on its father's cradling arm. Although to him is wedded a girl flushed with springtide's ...

— The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus • Caius Valerius Catullus

... one!' roared a big red-haired lad. 'I'll tell yer what we'll do wi' him. Let's roll him i' the sludge!' ...

— The Wolf Patrol - A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts • John Finnemore

... "profundity" in any of these than in libraries of "Sludge the Medium" literature. Mere hard thinking does not involve profundity, any more than neurotic excitation involves spiritual ecstasy. De profundis, indeed, must the poet come: there must the deep rhythm of life have electrified his "volatile essence" to a living rhythmic ...

— Life of Robert Browning • William Sharp

... issues: endangered marine species include the manatee, seals, sea lions, turtles, and whales; drift net fishing is hastening the decline of fish stocks and contributing to international disputes; municipal sludge pollution off eastern US, southern Brazil, and eastern Argentina; oil pollution in Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Lake Maracaibo, Mediterranean Sea, and North Sea; industrial waste and municipal sewage pollution in Baltic Sea, ...

— The 2002 CIA World Factbook • US Government

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