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cesspit
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cesspit
a pit to retain the sediment, usually fecal, of a drain.


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Her graphic accounts include "the casual excretory habits of the courtiers" and Samuel Pepys' consternation when the night-soil men "slopped their way through [his] house" to recover a neighbor's waste which had backed up through his own cess-pit.
London, Hub of the Industrial Revolution: A Revisionary History by Schmidt, Albert J. / Journal of Social History
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