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Night soil   /naɪt sɔɪl/   Listen
Night soil

noun
1.
Human excreta used as fertilizer.






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"Night soil" Quotes from Famous Books



... as convenient a place as any to speak of an important agricultural fact, the enormous amount of filth worked into the paddies. As is well known, hardly any of the night soil of Japan is wasted. Japanese agriculture depends upon it. Formerly the night soil was removed from the houses after being emptied into a pair of tubs which the peasant carried from a yoke. Such yoke-carried ...
— The Foundations of Japan • J.W. Robertson Scott



Words linked to "Night soil" :   manure



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