jawhole

Noun

jawhole (plural jawholes)

1. (Scotland, dated, dialectal) A hole or an open drain into which sewage or waste water is thrown; the opening of a sewer; or a cesspool or cesspit, an underground pit or container used to collect and store sewage and wastewater from a house in areas without a centralized sewer system.
   • This jawhole, as it is connected with the drains of the neighbourhood and of the Palace itself, is a real mouth of Avernus, vomiting at all times, but especially in warm weather, a pestilential stretch on all who live in its vicinity, and being a perpetual cause of dangerous fevers. [...] close to...1842, Walker, Alexander, Purification of Edinburgh, etc. [Letters on the sanitary condition of Edinburgh.], page 4
   • […] Nor did the mischief end even wi’ that, bad as it was, for ayont his Reverence, was the jawhole, whereinto him, an’ me, an’ the divots played plouter, garrin’ the fulzie jaup in a’ directions, fylin’ a grand table-claith o’ Wattie Webster’s weavin’ an’ my mither’s ain spinnin’, that was dryin’...1864, Latto, William Duncan, Tammas Bodkin: Or The Humours of a Scottish Tailor
2. A jawbox or tenement sink.