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n. A cesspool; a pit or covered cistern used to collect sewage and waste water.
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A cesspit, or cesspool, is a term with various meanings: it is either used to describe an underground holding tank (sealed at the bottom) or a soak pit (not sealed at the bottom). It can be used for the temporary collection and storage of feces, excreta or fecal sludge as part of an on-site sanitation system and has some similarities with septic tanks or with soak pits. Traditionally, it was a deep cylindrical chamber dug into the earth, having approximate dimensions of 1 metre diameter and 2–3 metres depth. Their appearance was similar to that of a hand-dug water well.
The pit can be lined with bricks or concrete, covered with a slab and needs to be emptied frequently when it is used like an underground holding tank. In other cases (if soil and groundwater conditions allow) it is not constructed watertight allowing liquid to leach out (similar to a pit latrine or to a soak pit).
Usage examples of "cesspit".
PREFACE The Murder IT WAS ON THE SEVENTH TIME THEY HAD PUSHED THE AMERICAN boy down into the liquid excrement of the cesspit that he failed to fight back, and died down there, every orifice filled with unspeakable filth.
Ricky followed him as he walked past the cattle pen and the cesspit, still brimming with its nauseous contents, swollen by the rains, to the barns where his father might have buried the family treasures to save them from marauders.
The abbot crossed himself fervently and prayed: for the soul of the boy in the cesspit and for the penitent beside him.
The cesspit was brimming full, partly from animal slurry but also from human waste.
Dostoyevsky forgotten the comparison of cesspit cleaner with poet, formulated by Zaytsev.
As he approached, that door opened and a yawning man stepped out, shuffled a short distance away from the tower, and emptied a chamber pot into a ditch or cesspit somewhere in the tall grass.
She was the leader of the dance, and she got stuck with Cesspit detail for ten days.
You could fall into a cesspit and come up not only smelling of roses but with the Shaara Crown Jewels clutched in your hot little hands.
With their city government a cesspit, any such act of honesty qualifies as an act of courage.
There was no other way to save the world from drowning in a cesspit of horror and agony.
I did not in earnest think him leprous, but boys that age are cruel, and once the Leper became his name among us, to distinguish him from the other monks at St Viktor the Hunchback, the Pig, the Furnace, the Cesspit and the Mole I could not banish the notion.
Pompey Strabo had been a more typical product of his rural origins, had known only one way to deal with wells, cesspits, latrines, rubbish disposal, drainage: when the stink became unbearable, move on.
A cesspit planet, a cesspit spaceport, offering little to the undiscerning save perhaps the loss of coin, of limb, of life, but rich to others in risk, in Chance, in Luck, in the endless mirage of hope-illicit, illegal, wholly intoxicating.
The crowded, fetid gundeck was a vision from hell, and the stench was like a pig-sty or cesspit.
Pompey Strabo had been a more typical product of his rural origins, had known only one way to deal with wells, cesspits, latrines, rubbish disposal, drainage: when the stink became unbearable, move on.