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chambre), a potty pot, a potty, a thunder pot or a thunder mug. It was also known as a chamber utensil or bedroom ware. Chamber pots were used in ancient...

Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis prompted his parishioners to bring along chamber pots, and his surname was applied to the pots themselves. Men's toilet designed by artist and...

upper half made of heat-resistant glass. Moka pots are used over a flame or electric range. Stainless steel pots, but not aluminium, can be used with induction...

tapered edges for durability. Bedpans differ from chamber pots in both size and function. Chamber pots are larger and usually have handles and a lid. A...

containing a toilet bowl. It was originally located in the bedroom, near the chamber-pot and the marital bed, but in modern times is located near the toilet bowl...

be very demanding, subjecting Winslow to taxing jobs such as emptying chamber pots, maintaining the machinery, carrying heavy kerosene tanks up the stairs...

the close stool and the chamber pot. The commode chair evolved from these in the 18th century and became also known as chamber chair, necessary chair....

were often among the most disagreeable in the house, such as emptying chamber pots for the higher-ranking servants. In the absence of a boot boy, he also...

daybreak prompts bells ringing, arguments over receipts, collection of the chamber pots, calls for carriages, and greetings to new guests; the third closes with...

by missiles, including rubbish, rotten vegetables and the contents of chamber pots thrown at the police by women in houses along the street. Mosley arrived...

Much of this waste came from overflowing privies and dunghills, or from chamber pots emptied into the streets from upstairs windows. By 1615 the town of Manchester...

water closet she may have been required to empty and clean the servants' chamber pots as well. This work has, in modern (i.e. the nineteenth century) times...

Buckets can be repurposed as seats, tool caddies, hydroponic gardens, chamber pots, "street" drums, or livestock feeders, amongst other uses. Buckets are...

household. The duties were menial, housekeeping work such as emptying chamber pots. In developed countries, fewer families can afford live-in help as they...

Toilets in New York City Bryant Park restroom Historical terms Aphedron Chamber pot Close stool Dansker Garderobe Gong farmer Groom of the Stool Night soil...

(lasanon) meaning 'trivet', 'stand for a pot' or 'chamber pot'. The Romans borrowed the word as lasanum, meaning 'cooking pot'. The Italians used the word to refer...

official reportedly placed a newspaper ad asking that the contents of chamber pots be saved for collection. In South Carolina, in April 1864, the Confederate...

attacks on prisoners leaving their cells to "slop out" (i.e., empty their chamber pots), this escalated into the "dirty protest", wherein prisoners refused...

burden of waste volume began overloading urban street gutters, where chamber pots were emptied each day. There was no regulation of cesspit construction...

porcelain chamber pots were commonly found in higher-class European households, and the term "bourdaloue" was used as the name for the pot. Whilst modern...