What is "chamberpot"

Usage examples of "chamberpot".

The apprentice, Raheen, examined the dung intently before consigning it to a chamberpot, squeezed a measure of urine from the sodden smallclothes and studied this sample too.

The black-haired woman made use of the silver chamberpot, then padded across the thickly carpeted floor of the lamp-lit, silk-walled room.

Maggie loved her elder half-sister and wished there was something she could do for her besides keep her company when she woke and see to it that her chamberpot was kept empty and her bedding spotless.

Sir Geoffrey on a day, he asked, half-jokingly, if the denizens of Whyffler Hall had the intent of cornering the chamberpot market for all of England.

He had piddled in his chamberpot, then returned to his bed, only to find that sleep evaded him.

Years of hauling water, wringing out clothes, scrubbing floors, emptying chamberpots, with no chance of beauty or color or light in my life, stretched before me like a landscape of flat land where, a long way off, the sea is visible but can never be reached.

Rafe brought her the chamberpot, held cups and spoons to her lips, brushed her hair, massaged the ache from her shoulders, comforted her.

Craer grinned at her as he snatched up the chamberpot, ran back to the secret door, and hurled it around the corner, aiming high and dirowing hard.

Most servants were not yet up, and any of the noble folk would use their chamberpots rather than venture out so early.

On his first stroll around the room he'd found the usual chamberpot under the bed, in addition to the thunder-chair.

At Chemmis, gorged, I let her go, paused to wash my mandibles at a drinking fountain near the empty temple, then sped burping up to Olympus just in time to see, with my left eyes, wrathful Zeus, thunderbolt in hand, sitting on the sill among the shit and shards of the celestial chamberpot, smashed either by himself in anger or by his overtaken wife in fright.

One of the servants unbuttoned himself above the chamberpot on the landing's corner.

Harvard Lampoon prankster who's left fireworks and chamberpots behind for this cutthroat carnival of journalism, and who promptly follows suit to the letter.

Dunworthy's fears, along with the white horse and the Christmas carols -- and she must be misunderstanding Eliwys's reactions the way she had misunderstood their getting her up to use the chamberpot.

She wants your grip, on the laces of her stays—on her comb, on the handle of her chamberpot.