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alt. 1 a pail used to hold food waste for disposal, e.g. by feeding to pigs 2 a receptacle used to hold liquid waste 3 a bucket used to store human waste indoors, and as a device upon which a person may relieve themselves; a chamberpot n. 1 a pail used to hold food waste for disposal, e.g. by feeding to pigs 2 a receptacle used to hold liquid waste 3 a bucket used to store human waste indoors, and as a device upon which a person may relieve themselves; a chamberpot
Usage examples of "slop bucket".
To punish the mutineers for actions which, in Hoxworth's opinion as he reported in his log, could well have led to the loss of the Carthaginian, no food or water was passed down through the grating that day, nor was the slop bucket hauled up, and as twilight fell and the card games ceased, John Whipple settled down for his first long night of hell in the crowded hold, but as he prepared to lie upon the bare boards, Nyuk Tsin moved among the Hakka men and found a few extra cloths.
Anyhow, we all got back in the tank an Sergeant Kranz give Sue the slop bucket, with some fresh slop, in case the mud wears off an we have to do it again.
The first three days he'd been locked up, the guards had brought food and water and emptied the slop bucket.
To give emphasis to his words, he doused his torch in the slop bucket.
The slop bucket had been knocked over too many times to count, but the men grew stronger and no more succumbed to fevers.
There was a single slop bucket at night, set in the middle of the floor.
Cecelia scrubbed until even her fastidious nose couldnt detect the faintest trace of the slop bucket contents, then opened the shower door to find a complete uniform hanging in the dressing cubicle.
It wasn't luxuriously furnished: a table with a kerosene lantern, clothes tree, slop bucket (better that, he thought, than going to an outhouse in the middle of the night--it'd probably freeze right off--cot piled high with extra blankets.
It wasn't luxuriously furnished a table with a kerosene lantern, clothes tree, slop bucket (better that, he thought, than going to an outhouse in the middle of the night—.
The slop bucket gleamed, although the fragments of a broken cup in the bottom said that the recent intensive housework hadn't been without its casualties.