Cesspool - English meaning
Cesspool – definitions in English dictionary
nounAn underground container for the temporary storage of liquid waste and sewage.
Usage examples:
The appellant owns and uses two tractors for the purpose of his business of emptying cesspools and …
nounA large, underground hole or container that is used for collecting and storing human waste and dirty water
Usage examples:
Fig. he described government there as a cesspool of corruption.
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Word origin
late 17th century (denoting a trap under a drain to catch solids): probably an alteration, influenced by pool1, of archaic suspiral ‘vent, water pipe, settling tank’, from Old French souspira
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