Meaning of night-man | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Man who collects night soil.
2. A man who works the night shift.

Examples

“In the neighborhood of Paris there are places appropriated to the reception of the night-soil: it is thrown into reservoirs of no great depth, in comparison with their superficial extent, and of an aggregate cappacity which is such that they will contain⟳ the whole of the products collected by the night-man in the course of six months.”

“No person shall act as night-man or drive⟳ any night-cart within the limits of the city of Grafton, unless such person be authorised so to do by the said Council.”

“The Inspector of Nuisances shall obtain⟳ from the contractor or night-man a list showing the names of occupiers or owners of premises where closets have⟳ been emptied, and the situation of such premises.”

“The morning of the third day dawned fair and fresh, and once more the solitary night-man at the fore-mast-head was relieved by crowds of the daylight look-outs, who dotted every mast and almost every spar.”

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