cesspit in English

noun

1

a pit for the disposal of liquid waste and sewage.

When the great social reformer Lord Shaftesbury visited one house, he went into the cellar - where a family was living - and found that the sewage from a nearby cesspit had leaked right under their floor boards.

noun

sink, sump, cesspool

Use "cesspit" in a sentence

1. Bespit, cesspit, cess pit, despot

2. Scutari was built over a cesspit.

3. What does Cesspits mean? Plural form of cesspit

4. For weeks the affair threatened to be a cesspit of scandal.

5. A once charming rural idyll, Emmerdale had become a moral cesspit.

6. It was a kind of cesspit constantly seething with smallpox and bubonic plague.

7. The ugly evil of bureaucracy, which no comrade likes, must be thrown into the cesspit.

8. Mordovia is the cesspit into which are flushed the malcontents and malefactors of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

9. But this could actually yield some fantastic results, especially if it was an area where rubbish was thrown or the cesspit was located.

10. But we cannot relegate computer games to the cesspit of pop culture solely on the evidence of the current crop of games.

11. So says the skeptic. But we cannot relegate computer games to the cesspit of pop culture solely on the evidence of the current crop of games.

12. Before the 19th century when the construction of Cesspits was improved, liquid waste from the sewage would seep through the cesspit and into the ground

13. Although little remains of the property, the team, led by Birmingham Archaeology, believes it has identified a rubbish tip or cesspit used by the 16th century poet.

14. Cesspool: 1 n a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it Synonyms: cesspit , sink , sump Type of: cistern an artificial reservoir for storing liquids; especially an …

15. The company put a camera in to the cesspit tank, filtered the waste and even sent a brave worker into the tank with a metal detector to help Speirs but failed.

16. A cesspit (or Cesspool or soak pit in some contexts), is a term with various meanings: it is used to describe either an underground holding tank (sealed at the bottom) or a soak pit (not sealed at the bottom)

17. Ten thousand Jus in the coffin absorb Suo Suo, than that village inside's most simple and crude grass shed Mr. the vacillating Ju still want in the middle of the Ci cesspit disgusted must and doubly.

18. As nouns the difference between Crankcase and sump is that Crankcase is the part of an engine that contains the crankshaft while sump is a hollow or pit into which liquid drains, such as a cesspool, cesspit or sink

19. A Cesspit (or Cesspool or soak pit in some contexts), is a term with various meanings: it is used to describe either an underground holding tank (sealed at the bottom) or a soak pit (not sealed at the bottom)