Vocabulary : Sludger to Slugged
Sludger : A shovel for sludging out drains, etc. ;; A bucket for removing mud from a bored hole; a sand pump.Sludy : Miry; slushy.
Slue : A slough; a run or wet place. See 2d Slough, 2. ;; To turn about a fixed point, usually the center or axis, as a spar or piece of timber; to turn; -- used also of any heavy body. ;; In general, to turn about; to twist; -- often used reflexively and followed by round. ;; To turn about; to turn from the course; to slip or slide and turn from an expected or desired course; -- often followed by round. ;; See Sloough, 2.
Slued : of Slue
Slug : A drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard. ;; A hindrance; an obstruction. ;; Any one of numerous species of terrestrial pulmonate mollusks belonging to Limax and several related genera, in which the shell is either small and concealed in the mantle, or altogether wanting. They are closely allied to the land snails. ;; Any smooth, soft larva of a sawfly or moth which creeps like a mollusk; as, the pear slug; rose slug. ;; A ship that sails slowly. ;; An irregularly shaped piece of metal, used as a missile for a gun. ;; A thick strip of metal less than type high, and as long as the width of a column or a page, -- used in spacing out pages and to separate display lines, etc. ;; To move slowly; to lie idle. ;; To make sluggish. ;; To load with a slug or slugs; as, to slug a gun. ;; To strike heavily. ;; To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel; -- said of a bullet when fired from a gun, pistol, or other firearm.
