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nightsoiler

nightsoiler noun: one who removes nightsoil.

Noun

nightsoiler (plural nightsoilers)

  1. One who removes nightsoil.
    • Near-synonyms: night soil man, nightman
    • He next secured an entrance amongst the goods porters of the London and North-Western Railway; and now the work promised so to grow on his hands, that the Committee of the City Mission set him apart for this special line of labour, and gave him a commission to open similar services wherever a...1865, “Half-hour services in Lancashire; or, how to get at the people”, in The Sunday Magazine, page 559

Examples of nightsoiler in a sentence

  • Several of the pits are owned by the nightsoilers themselves who sell the composted material to various stores for retail trade.1915, Eighth Annual Report of the Commissioner of Health for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1913, Part II, William Stanley Ray, State...
  • For example, most of the nightsoilers, or latrine cleaners, at Kambove were Lozi from Barotseland.1989, John Higginson, “Copper, Community, and Death”, in A Working Class in the Making: Belgian Colonial Labor Policy, Private Enterprise...

Synonyms of nightsoiler

Forms of nightsoiler

pluralnightsoilers

Origin of nightsoiler

From nightsoil + -er.

Questions about nightsoiler

What does nightsoiler mean?
Nightsoiler means one who removes nightsoil.
How do you use nightsoiler in a sentence?
Several of the pits are owned by the nightsoilers themselves who sell the composted material to various stores for retail trade.
What part of speech is nightsoiler?
Nightsoiler is a noun.
What is the plural of nightsoiler?
The plural of nightsoiler is nightsoilers.

Words near nightsoiler in the dictionary

  1. nightskies
  2. nightsky
  3. nightsnake
  4. nightsnakes
  5. nightsoil
  6. nightsoiler
  7. nightsoilers
  8. nightspot
  9. nightspots
  10. nightstalker
  11. nightstalkers

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