slutch (sluch)

[ He [Ajax] launchet to londe, & his lyf hade, Bare of his body, bret full of water. In the Slober & the sluche slongyn to londe, There he lay the long night ouer. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 12529. slutch edt, a . [ME.; slutch + -ed2.] Muddied. Thenne he swepe to the sonde in sluchched clothes, A hand at the gangway that has been softened by applications of solvent slush to the tint of a long envelope on "public service." J. W. Palmer, The New and the Old, p. 359. 5. A mixture of white lead and lime with which the bright parts of machinery are covered to prevent their rusting.