nightman

Noun

 * 1)  A person whose job is cleaning cesspools or sewers, or emptying privies by night.
 * 2) * 1722,, , London: E. Nutt (etc.), p. 54,
 * That the Laystalls be removed as far as may be out of the City, and common Passages, and that no Nightman or other be suffered to empty a Vault into any Garden near about the City.
 * 1) * 1825,, London and Londoners; or, A Second Judgment of “Babylon the Great”, London: H. Colburn, 2nd edition, 1836, p. 197,
 * Still [the rats] are an organized race, and can combine together for the purposes both of attack and defence; as the nightmen who clean the sewers and cesspools of Babylon often find. The travels of a nightman have never been published; but they would make a very curious book. As they worm their way along those dismal passages, they often find an army of rats drawn up to oppose their farther progress
 * 1) * 1851,, , London: G. Woodfall & Son, Volume II, The Street-Folk, p. 193,
 * I have met with nightmen who have told me that there was “nothing particular” in the smell of the cesspools they were emptying; they “hardly perceived it.” One man said, “Why, it’s like the sort of stuff I’ve smelt in them ladies’ smelling-bottles.”
 * 1) A male night shift worker.
 * 2) A nightwatchman; a guard who works at night.
 * 1) A nightwatchman; a guard who works at night.
 * 1) A nightwatchman; a guard who works at night.

Synonyms

 * (obsolete)