Definitions for slags

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Spelling: [slag]

IPA: /slæg/

Slags is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in slags (aglss).

Definitions for slags

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.
4. British Slang. an abusive woman.

verb (used with object)

1. to convert into slag.
2. Metallurgy. to remove slag from (a steel bath).

verb (used without object)

1. to form slag; become a slaglike mass.

Origin of slags

1545-55; Middle Low German slagge; cognate with German Schlacke dross, slag; see slack²

Examples for slags

Of these, oyster or marine shells, burnt shale, and slag are most common.

The separation of the slag and iron is facilitated by throwing in some lime from time to time.

We could toss all this information onto the ever-growing “Oh, those crazy Republicans” slag heap, have a laugh, and let it go.

slag and sand were delivered to the mixer by means of wheelbarrows.

This cement is made of limestone and clay, or marl, chalk, and slag.

It would be the equivalent of someone trying to slag Halle Berry without mentioning Catwoman.

Because, at the foot of the tree, as if broken off the stone, fragments of slag were found.

The archetypal Arizonan did not slag the state; he spoke in the language of a real-estate brochure.

Now the surface was a lethal desert of slag and rolling clouds.

slag, being a man of feeling, opined that it was absence of mind.