Slugs
[slʌg]
Definition
(n. pl.) Half-roasted ore.
Editor: Patrick
Examples
- The Moors have some small silver coins and also some silver slugs worth a dollar each. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- At that day fifty dollar gold pieces, not the issue of the government, were common on the Pacific coaSt. They were called slugs. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- She thought of the wood, and stole towards it, heedless of long grass and briers: of worms, snails, and slugs, and all the creeping things that be. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The blunderbus is loaded with slugs. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Order given; with the sarcastic addition (from Mr. Smallweed) of Without slugs, Polly! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It was a large, short, funnel-shaped muzzle-loader, and loaded with nails, slugs, etc. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
Editor: Patrick