defecator

plural defecators

1. One who defecates.

   Number two in the news: In January police in New Waterford, Nova Scotia, were investigating a suspected serial defecator who had soiled three locations around town during the holiday season, including the floor of a recreation center.

   1999 February 12, Chuck Shepherd, “News of the Weird”, in Chicago Reader

2. archaicThat which cleanses or purifies; especially, an apparatus for removing impurities from juices and syrups.

   After the preliminary filtering or settling of the juice, it is taken into the defecator, and there receives the treatment with lime.

   1884, Peter Collier, Sorghum, page 293