What is the entomology behind the word slug? Or is it just a mystery?

Corruption of "slag", as lead could be considered as such

>>34143024
Slug is a term for lump of metal. Metal disks used to trick laundry and arcade machines in the 1990s were called slugs. Dollops of metal ore are called slugs.

>>34143047
but wai?

>>34143024
>etymology
Google too hard for you?
15 sec. says probably Scandinavian from heavy body

>>34143024
In the eighteenth century poor farmers would run out of salt to pour on slugs to kill them so they started casting lead cylinders to shoot out of their shotguns and the term slug just caught on.

>>34143071
Did they shoot live slugs out of their guns when the salt was plentiful?

>>34143140
The point of the salt was to liquify them so that they could be put into a grease coated paper shell and fired.

>>34143024
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slug_(typesetting)

A big chunk of lead

>>34143024
>entomology

sure, we named them after the salt-weak mollusks.

>>34143024
Direct search in Google

slug1
Origin

late Middle English (sense 2 of the noun): probably of Scandinavian origin; compare with Norwegian dialect slugg ‘large heavy body.’ Sense 1 dates from the early 18th century.

>>34143024
The slug is a unit of measure.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slug_(mass)

We named it after the Louisville slugger baseball bat like true patriots

>>34143024
>entomology
Slugs are gastropods, not insects.