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Definition of Slop pail
1. Noun. A large pail used to receive waste water from a washbasin or chamber pot.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slop Pail
Literary usage of Slop pail
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not by Florence Nightingale (1912)
"A slop pail should never be brought into a sick room. ... In the best hospitals
it is now a rule that no slop- pail shall ever be brought into the wards, ..."
2. A Treatise on Domestic Economy, for the Use of Young Ladies at Home, and at by Catharine Esther Beecher (1854)
"Under the sink should be kept a slop-pail; and, on a shelf by it, a soap-dish
and two water-pails. A large boiler, of warm soft water, should always be kept ..."
3. A Treatise on Domestic Economy: For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at by Catharine Esther Beecher (1856)
"Under the sink should be kept a slop-pail; and, on a shelf by it, a soap-dish
and two water-pails. A large boiler, of warm soft water, should always be kept ..."
4. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"For he really was deep in that slop-pail or extinct-scandal department, and had
heard a great many things. Apart from that, in almost any other department, ..."
5. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, called Frederick the Great: in ten vol by Thomas Carlyle (1864)
"For he really was deep in that slop-pail or extinct-scandal department, and had
heard a great many things. Apart from that, in almost any other department ..."
6. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1864)
"For he really was deep in that slop-pail or extinct-scandal department, and had
heard a great many things. Apart from that, in almost any other department ..."
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