A vehicle which was used to collect excrement from areas with no sewers; a sanitary cart.
they refused to carry out work such as emptying the night cart
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There were still night carts picking up sewage from half the inner suburbs of Sydney.
Despite his lowly occupation, the night cart man owned one of the best houses in Greymouth, poised on a hill overlooking us all.
With summer ripening the odour in the area, the neighbours drew up a roster system to empty the night cart pan, dubbing it Dunny Duty.
At least they enjoyed the two bottles of beer the old girl left out each week for the night cart man.
Much like the sewage system put the night cart men into other professions, or electricity put an end to the gaslight men, the book industry is also undergoing change.
Trouble was there was no night cart man any longer, and trying to organise other toilet facilities only agitated and upset the woman.
The majority of rights of way in Banyule were developed in the late 1800s and early 1900s and were used as night cart lanes.
With its heavy use by dogs and its dog-leg bend, the lane must have proven quite adventurous for the night cart man of yore.
They refused to carry out the menial work, such as carrying luggage across coral from the main boat to the settlement and, you know, emptying the night cart.
She started using the old outhouse again—complete with flap door at the back for the night cart man to remove the pan.