shit-carter

English

Noun

shit-carter (plural shit-carters)

  1. A person employed to empty outhouses; a sanitary man.
    Near-synonym: nightman
    • 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 22:
      ‘If I was a shit-carter, every Christmas I’d go and dump a load in Cucumber Domain.’

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