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slag

1   [slag]
noun, verb, slagged, slag⋅ging.
–noun
1. Also called cinder. the more or less completely fused and vitrified matter separated during the reduction of a metal from its ore.
2. the scoria from a volcano.
3. waste left over after the re-sorting of coal.
–verb (used with object)
4. to convert into slag.
5. Metallurgy. to remove slag from (a steel bath).
–verb (used without object)
6. to form slag; become a slaglike mass.
Origin:
1545–55; < MLG slagge; c. G Schlacke dross, slag; see slack 2
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slag     (slāg)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. The vitreous mass left as a residue by the smelting of metallic ore.
  2. See scoria.

tr. & intr.v.   slagged, slag·ging, slags
To change into or form slag.


[Low German slagge, from Middle Low German.]

slag'gy adj.
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