slop-pail
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
slop-pail (plural slop-pails)
- (dated) A container used for urinating or defecating when it is not possible or convenient to use a bathroom or toilet; a bedpan, a chamber pot. Commonly used in hospitals, where it is normally called bedpan. Formerly used in private residences that were without an indoor toilet or bathroom.
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- Universal Dictionary of the English Language, volume 4, 1897, page 4310