gongpit
nounEtymology From Middle English gonge-put, from Old English gangpyt, equivalent to gong (“latrine, outhouse”) + pit.
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Obsolete The cesspit of a latrine or outhouse; a latrine or outhouse itself.
- On þære nyðemestan fleringe wæs heora gangpyt & heora myxen.c. 1000, Aelfric, Interrogationes Sigewulfi
- In to a gonge-put fer wiþ-Inne þe child adoun þer-Inne he þrong.a. 1400, the Vernon Manuscript, Ch. xxix, p. 48
- Related terms
- gong