cesspool Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it
    sink; cesspit; sump.

WordNet

Cess"pool` noun
Etymology
See Sesspol.
Definitions
  1. A cistern in the course, or the termination, of a drain, to collect sedimentary or superfluous matter; a privy vault; any receptace of filth. Written also sesspool.

Webster 1913