gongfermour

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A form of gong farmer — One who dug out and removed human excrement from privies and cesspits.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

noungongfermour (plural gongfermours)

plural gongfermours

  1. alternativeAlternative form of gong farmer.

    In other places it drops down a shute into a strategically positioned barrel, which it will be emptied by the castle gongfermour (latrine pit cleaner).

    2008, Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, Vintage Books, page 161
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