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Meanings of earth-closet in English

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A small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate.

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        Examples for "privy"
        Examples for "privy"
        1
        We council members were privy to a great deal of information, Bornstellar-Makes-Eternal-Lasting.
        Fractures - Extraordinary Tales from the Halo Canon
        2
        However, I was not privy to their internal business arrangements or transactions.
        The South African
        3
        Water dripped in the distance, making her want to use the privy.
        Shadow's son
        4
        John was fibbing; we hadn't excavated a privy at the Chandler house.
        Ashes and bones: an emma fielding mystery
        5
        Hence the plaintiff must always be privy in estate with the covenantee.
        The Common Law
        1
        Maybe we should return to the outhouse we'd passed an hour earlier.
        Rock and Ice Magazine
        2
        The working model in the outhouse is all but ready for exhibition.
        In the Track of the Troops
        3
        Guesses by family and friends have included smokehouse, hothouse, outhouse, and kiln.
        Flash and Bones
        4
        But we might use it as a sort of outhouse, you know.
        The Princess and the Goblin
        5
        The presence of the second person in the outhouse suggested a keeper.
        Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels
        1
        No, don't you worry; these country jakes won't ever think of that.
        The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
        2
        Then he opened the rough board door of the jakes and stepped in.
        Blood Meridian
        3
        What 'd you wanter let them country jakes beat you for?
        The Redheaded Outfield, and Other Baseball Stories
        4
        So many points for a jakes, so many for a shower and so on.
        The Irish Times
        5
        The first man watched him go and then opened the door of the jakes.
        Blood Meridian
        Usage of earth-closet in English
        1
        The inventor of the earth-closet, Rev.
        American Woman's Home: Or, Principles of Domestic Science; / Bei...
        2
        But you quaint little people with your bonnets and breeches, your horse buggies, your archaic dialect and your earth-closet privies, you enrich our lives.
        The god delusion
        3
        In the circular published by the Earth-Closet Company, the following directions are given:
        American Woman's Home: Or, Principles of Domestic Science; / Bei...
        4
        It is absurd to talk of making "guano" or any concentrated fertilizer out of the material from earth-closets.
        Talks on Manures / A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks Betw...
        5
        The Board of Health officially announced that this was the cause of the sickness, and recommended the removal of the earth-closets.
        A Domestic Problem : Work and Culture in the Household
        Translations for earth-closet
        Earth-closet through the time