night-cart

Noun

night cart (plural night carts)

1. (historical) A cart used to remove the contents of privies by night.
   • But above all I would beg my reading merry Friends of the thoughtless kind not to be so much surpriz'd at the Apparitions of their own Brain; not to start and be frighted when they first make Devils by Day-light, and then see them in the dark; and as they may be assur'd they will hardly ever see...1729, Daniel Defoe, The Secrets of the Invisible World Exposed, London: J. Clarke, A. Millar and J. Green, page 395

   Synonyms:

   danna-drag