pissdale
n.— «Ned Ward in his satiric Wooden World described the sailor’s morning ritual: “he crawls…to the pissdale where he manages his whipstaff with one hand and scratches his poop with the other.”» —by Ned Ward Wooden World , 1707. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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