Vocabulary : Slugger to Sluiced

Slugger : One who strikes heavy blows; hence, a boxer; a prize fighter.
Slugging : of Slug
Slugging match : A boxing match or prize fight marked rather by heavy hitting than skill. ;; A ball game, esp. a baseball game, in which there is much hard hitting of the ball.
Sluggish : Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man. ;; Slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish stream. ;; Having no power to move one's self or itself; inert. ;; Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple.
Sluggy : Sluggish.

Slug-horn : An erroneous form of the Scotch word slughorne, or sloggorne, meaning slogan.
Slugs : Half-roasted ore.
Slugworm : Any caterpillar which has the general appearance of a slug, as do those of certain moths belonging to Limacodes and allied genera, and those of certain sawflies.
Sluice : An artifical passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate or flood gate. ;; Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply. ;; The stream flowing through a flood gate. ;; A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth. ;; To emit by, or as by, flood gates. ;; To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows. ;; To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.
Sluiced : of Sluice

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