[f. as prec. + PIT.] = A pit for the reception of night-soil and refuse; a midden.
1840. Morning Chron., 7 Nov., 3/6. He dug, with nothing but his hands…, putting the earth, as he displaced it, into the cesspit.
1864. R. A. Arnold, Cotton Famine, 440. The deep cesspool system is bad enough, but the middens or cesspits of the cotton districts are a very great deal worse.
1884. Law Times Rep., L. 19 April, 230/2. The defendant, owning one well, began to use it as a cesspit.
1887. The Age, 15 Oct., 6/8. A sum … flung yearly into the cesspit of this single vice!
