shit-carter

noun

shit-carter

noun
1

A person employed to empty outhouses; a sanitary man.

  • Near-synonym: nightman
  • ‘If I was a shit-carter, every Christmas I’d go and dump a load in Cucumber Domain.’1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 22:
Related terms
honey wagon, night soil

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