gullion

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Ye had to wipe the slum gullion of Eureka Gulch off your hands, Lacy"— He stopped, gasped for breath, and then lifted his voice more savagely, "And now, what's this?

From The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales by Harte, Bret

No kind there was of human pumpkin But at its bumps it had a bumpkin; Down to the very lowest gullion, And oiliest skull of oily scullion.

From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Hood, Thomas

Then he poured for us a beverage which he called "Slum gullion," and it is hard to think he was not inspired when he named it.

From Roughing It, Part 1. by Twain, Mark