Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗Solitary confinement. · A slag heap, i.e. a man-made mound or heap formed with the waste material (slag) as a by-product of coal mining or the shale oil industry. · The waste by-product from a foundry or furnace, formed into such a mound. · A heap or pile, especially of metallic ore.
From Middle English bing, binge, benge (also as Middle English byngger, bengere (“grain bin, hopper”)), from Old Norse bingr (“heap of corn; bed; bolster”), cognate with Scots bing, Swedish binge (“heap”), Danish bing (“bin; box; compartment”). Compare also Scottish Gaelic binnean meaning a small hill or slag heap.
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