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
   • No person shall use or drive any of the vehicles, commonly known as "Night Carts," in any portion of the city and county lying east of Van Ness avenue, south of Market street, and north of Corbett street, except between the hours of twelve o'clock midnight and five o'clock in the morning; and no...1869, San Francisco Municipal Reports for the Fiscal Year 1868-9, ending June 30, 1869, https://books.google.ca/books?id=6Ie3AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

   Synonyms:

   danna-drag