What is "nightsoil"

Usage examples of "nightsoil".

But to Jugurtha it was a small view, and when the wind was right the stench of the nightsoil fertilizing the market gardens of the outer Campus Martius around the Via Recta was strong enough to make him wish he had elected to live further out, somewhere around Bovillae or Tusculum.

The smell of the town was left behind, the thick smell of rotting manure, nightsoil, horses and cooking smoke.

He walked down the alley that stank of the nightsoil that was indiscriminately thrown from the bedrooms.

They were soldiers and, like the men who dug the nightsoil from the pits of London, or like the women who tended the pestilent dying in the charity wards, they did a distasteful job that more fastidious men and women despised.

But idle hands can put in skylights, haul nightsoil, build simple windmills.