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night-soil
ˈnight-soil [f. night n. + soil n.] 1. The excrementitious matter removed by night from cesspools, etc.1770–4 A. Hunter Georg. Ess. (1804) II. 294 Night soil is found to be an excellent manure. 1844 Stephens Bk. Farm II. 30 A crop of the large orange carrot, manured with night-soil. 1860 Reade 8th C... Oxford English Dictionary
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Night soil
Post-World War II Chinatown, Singapore, before the independence of Singapore, utilized night-soil collection as a primary means of waste disposal, especially wikipedia.org
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night-soil
night-soiln [U] (euph 婉) human excrement removed from latrines, etc at night (夜间从粪坑中清除的)粪便. 牛津英汉双解词典
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Lorong Halus
A large part of the area had formerly been used as a sewage ground (for night-soil collection) and a refuse dump. The sewage ground was shut down in the 1980s following the end of the local night-soil industry in Singapore at around that time, while the dumping ground wikipedia.org
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Ralph Waldo Emerson MacIvor
The Chemistry of Agriculture, Stillwell, Melbourne, 1879, 275 pp MacIvor, Ralph Waldo Emerson, 'MacIvor's Improved Method of Disposing of and Utilizing Night-soil wikipedia.org
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cesspit
cesspit (ˈsɛspɪt) [f. as prec. + pit.] = A pit for the reception of night-soil and refuse; a midden.1864 R. A. Arnold Cotton Fam. 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 Reports 19 Apr. 230/2 The defe... Oxford English Dictionary
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Thomas Fresh
Fresh's official duties included solving the problem of the disposal of Liverpool's "night-soil". wikipedia.org
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G. S. Kennedy-Skipton
interned like the rest of the colonial administrators as he claimed Irish nationality and he had also agreed to help the Japanese with the administration of night-soil wikipedia.org
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soil
▪ I. soil, n.1 (sɔɪl) Forms: 4–8 soyle (5 soylle), 5, 7–8 soyl (6 Sc. soyll), 5–7 soile, 6– soil. [a. AF. soil, soyl in sense 2 b (1292–1305), app. representing L. solium (whence also OF. soil, suel: see soil n.2), taken in the sense of L. solum (F. sol) ground. For Sc. forms see also sulye.] I. 1. ... Oxford English Dictionary
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Chen Yi (Kuomintang)
As the Shanghai newspaper Wenhui Bao remarked, Chen ran everything "from the hotel to the night-soil business." wikipedia.org
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night
▪ I. night, n. (naɪt) Forms: α. 1 næcht, næht, neaht, 1, 4 naht, (3 nahht), 3–5 naght, (4 naȝt), 3 naught, (5 nauȝt). β. 1–4 nyht, 3–5 nyth, 5–6 Sc. nycht; 4–5 nyȝt, (4 nyȝtt, -tht), 4–6 nyght, (4 nygth); 1, 4 niht, (3 nihht, nieht), 3–6 nicht, (4 nith); 3–5 niȝt, 5 neght, 5–6 nighte, 3– night. [Com... Oxford English Dictionary
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伤寒暴嗽 in English - 伤寒暴嗽 meaning in English - ichacha.net
"肠伤寒" in English: abdominal typhus; ileotyphus; typhoid ... "大伤寒" in English : acute exogenous febrile disease "粪热, 伤寒" in English : night-soil fever
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Preston Manor, Brighton
He sold his farm produce in the growing town of Brighton and was awarded a contract by the Town Commissioners to clear night-soil (sewage) from the streets wikipedia.org
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wood
▪ I. wood, n.1 (wʊd) Forms: 1 widu, wiodu, wudu, 2–3 wude, 3–6 (7 Sc.) wode, 4–6 wodd, woode, (7 Sc.) wod, wodde, (3 wd(d)e, 4 uud, Sc. vod, woud, voud, 5 woyd, whode, vode, voode, 6 woodde, wud), 5–6 Sc. wid(d, 5– wood, (9 Sc. wudd). [OE. widu, wiodu, later wudu str. m. = OHG. witu, wito (MHG. wite... Oxford English Dictionary
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Great Hanoi Rat Massacre
The human waste commonly found in these public fountains were removed by pre-dawn night-soil collectors. wikipedia.org
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