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  • noun Alternative spelling of cesspit.

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Examples

  • There's seems little point in working our way through the whole sorry mess of manure, shovelling it out spadeful by spadeful, not when the whole construction is built on poisoned earth over a cess-pit of raw sewage.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • There's seems little point in working our way through the whole sorry mess of manure, shovelling it out spadeful by spadeful, not when the whole construction is built on poisoned earth over a cess-pit of raw sewage.

    On Sophistry and Subjectivity Hal Duncan 2009

  • My thoughts and prayers are with the brave men and women in the IDF who as I write this risk life and limb de-infesting the cess-pit of Gaza.

    Biased BBC 2009

  • My thoughts and prayers are with the brave men and women in the IDF who as I write this risk life and limb de-infesting the cess-pit of Gaza.

    Archive 2009-01-03 2009

  • It is a cess-it, albeit an extremely popular cess-pit, always ready to pounce on the latest scandal and spread much muck, along with the all to rare smidgeon of truth.

    2 Channel attracts business professionals too 2007

  • It is not just me, not just here of course, the world of the internet comment is a cess-pit.

    Real life and virtual 2009

  • Some historians claim that by a cunning sleight-of-hand, the Scots actually handed Edward the cess-pit cover from Scone Castle rather than the real Stone (which if true, means that a long succession of English and British monarchs have been crowned while atop a medieval toilet-seat lid!).

    Stone of Destiny miss-k2 2006

  • [87] This may mean that they dropped themselves into the cess-pit and made their way out through another opening.

    Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward

  • "An 'the same is a cess-pit," said Mulvaney, piously.

    Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • 'An' the same is a cess-pit, 'said Mulvaney piously.

    Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900

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