A pool or pit formed in the ground for collecting waste water, sewage, etc.; a cesspool. Later spec.: a temporary latrine, as dug on an army…

a pit for holding refuse.

A hole or hollow in which waste matter collects or is thrown; a cesspit. Also: the hole or pipe that drains waste water from a sink. Also figurative.

A settling tank; a cesspool.

A sink. In quot. 1537 figurative.

A pit in which farmyard manure and other waste is stored; a muck or slurry pit. More generally: a refuse pit; a (domestic) midden; an ash pit.

a cesspit; cf. dung pit, n. 1.

Originally: †a sink or washbasin (obsolete). Later (English regional (Lincolnshire)): a cesspool, a drain.

A quagmire; (also) a receptacle or place for kitchen or garden waste; a rubbish heap or compost heap; a cesspit. In later use usually attributive, as…

A naturally occurring or man-made pit, pond, reservoir, or tank used to collect water, other liquids, or dissolved or suspended material contained…

a pit or hole (either in a mine or at ground level) used to collect water or other liquids; a cesspool; also figurative (cf. cesspool, n. 3).

A hole into which dirty water or other liquid is ‘jawed’ or thrown; an open entrance to a sewer, house-drain, or cesspool.

A cesspool. Obsolete. rare.

A well sunk to receive the soil from a water-closet, kitchen sink, etc.: properly one which retains the solid matter, and allows the liquid to escape.

(see quots. and cf. dead well, n.).

(see quot. 1861).

= A pit for the reception of night-soil and refuse; a midden.

An artificial shallow pool used in the treatment and concentration of sewage and slurry.

= lagoon, n.1 4.