seat of ease

seat of ease
 n.— «It’s a pissdale; it’s essentially a urinal.…Basically it’s just a tapered lead tube that leads from the “seat of ease” as they called it out into the water.» —“QAR dive produces interesting artifacts” by Patricia Smith Daily News (Jacksonville, N.C.) May 23, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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