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pit toilets

pit toilets is the plural of pit toilet.

Meaning of pit toilet

Noun

pit toilet (plural pit toilets)

  1. A facility for accepting human waste, typically through personal use via urination and defecation, where the waste is directed into a cesspit directly below the access port used by the person needing facilities. Modern pit toilets typically permanently store the waste for natural decay, and are closed and sealed when full, while historically, they have sometimes been manually harvested for night soil. Pit toilets typically take the form of an outhouse.

Questions about pit toilets

What is pit toilets the plural of?
Pit toilets is the plural of pit toilet.

Words near pit toilets in the dictionary

  1. pit stop
  2. pit stops
  3. pit straight
  4. pit straights
  5. pit toilet
  6. pit toilets
  7. pit village
  8. pit villages
  9. pit viper
  10. pit vipers
  11. pit wheel

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