His rendezvous for his fleet, and for all slugs to come to, should
be between Calais and Dover.
Pepys.
6. [Perhaps a different word.] An irregularly shaped piece of metal,
used as a missile for a gun.
7. (Print.) A thick strip of metal less than type high, and as long as
the width of a column or a page, -- used in spacing out pages and to
separate display lines, etc.
Sea slug. (Zoöl.) (a) Any nudibranch mollusk. (b) A holothurian. --
Slug caterpillar. Same as Slugworm.