English Dictionary

gong scourer

名詞

廃用

(obsolete) One who dug out and removed human excrement from privies and cesspits.

日本語の意味

（古語）便所や糞壺から人間の糞便を掘り出し除去する人

Every spring the village paid the gong scourer to dig out the old cesspits behind the cottages.

村は毎年春になると、小さな家々の裏にある古い便所や浄化槽の汚物を掘り出して取り除くために汲み取り人を雇った。

意味（1）

(obsolete) One who dug out and removed human excrement from privies and cesspits.

As you can imagine, the stench was unbearable and many gong scourers died from suffocation. When tobacco became available, many gong scourers adopted smoking, just to keep away the fumes.

gong scourers （ plural ）