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Definition of "night-soil" [night-soil]

  • Alternative spelling of night soil. (noun)

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Use "night-soil" in a sentence
  • "They stood up for their right not to pay for either John the Murder-Rapist's drawing and quartering or his gaol, or for the costs of instituting a unified disposal system for night-soil, or to lay new roads that they couldn't be absolutely certain they would use."
  • "A wooden gate, painted an optimistic yellow, opened from the yard to a night-soil lane."
  • "She lay curled up on her side in the busiest and foulest corner of the dormitory, near the long bench with holes where we relieved ourselves all in a row, sitting over hidden night-soil jars."