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pissdale en · NOUN

Etymology

From piss + dale.

Meanings

1. (historical) A urinal basin or trough (usually metal) on a ship.
   • […] pissdales on unidentified models in the collection of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, are known to exist. Two of these, one of a fifty-gun ship of ca. 1720 and another of the same size from ca. 1725, have paired pissdales, one on each side of the forward jeer capstan. 1991, Joe J. Simmons, Those Vulgar Tubes: External Sanitary Accommodations Aboard European Ships of the Fifteenth Through Seventeenth Centuries, Nautical Archaeology Program, page 55:
   • […] while there by the stairs leading to the quarter-deck is the copper bowl known as the 'pissdale', where officers could relieve themselves. All of them, Cook insists, even the pissdale, must be polished till they shine – ship-shape – as brightly as the brass buckles and buttons on the officers' uniforms. With no little[…] 2019 October 29, Peter FitzSimons, James Cook: The story behind the man who mapped the world, Hachette Australia, →ISBN:

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