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slag

1  [slag] noun, verb, slagged, slag⋅ging.
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–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

Related forms:
slag⋅a⋅ble, adjective
slag⋅a⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, noun
slagless, adjective
slag⋅less⋅ness, noun
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slag   (slāg)   
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.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

slag 
1552, from M.L.G. slagge (Ger. Schlacke) "splinter flying off when metal is struck," related to O.H.G. slahan "to strike, slay" (see slay). Verbal slang meaning "denigrate" is from 1971, from noun sense of "worthless person" (1788).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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