"nightman" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "From night + -man.",
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      "word": "be on nights"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "night job"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "night soil"
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          "text": "1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London: E. Nutt (etc.), p. 54,\nThat the Laystalls be removed as far as may be out of the City, and common Passages, and that no Nightman or other be suffered to empty a Vault into any Garden near about the City."
        },
        {
          "text": "1825, Robert Mudie, London and Londoners; or, A Second Judgment of “Babylon the Great”, London: H. Colburn, 2nd edition, 1836, p. 197,\nStill [the rats] are an organized race, and can combine together for the purposes both of attack and defence; as the nightmen who clean the sewers and cesspools of Babylon often find. The travels of a nightman have never been published; but they would make a very curious book. As they worm their way along those dismal passages, they often find an army of rats drawn up to oppose their farther progress […]"
        },
        {
          "text": "1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, London: G. Woodfall & Son, Volume II, The Street-Folk, p. 193,\nI have met with nightmen who have told me that there was “nothing particular” in the smell of the cesspools they were emptying; they “hardly perceived it.” One man said, “Why, it’s like the sort of stuff I’ve smelt in them ladies’ smelling-bottles.”"
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        "A person whose job is cleaning cesspools or sewers, or emptying privies by night."
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        "(historical) A person whose job is cleaning cesspools or sewers, or emptying privies by night."
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          "word": "gong farmer"
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          "ref": "1907 April 5, The Railroad Gazette, volume 42, number 14, page 482:",
          "text": "Most men who are of sufficient intelligence and moral character to make thoroughly satisfactory block signalmen will naturally seek a respite occasionally from such a confining routine, and if they cannot accomplish this without securing a substitute at their own expense they are under constant temptation to “change off”—the day man working for the nightman and the nightman for the day.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1927 December 11, “Vandals”, in Time:",
          "text": "Doorman John Healy comes to work Sunday morning bringing a partly finished bottle of whiskey. He greets his colleague, George Tiernan, nightman, with the suggestion that they “kill the quart” before Mr. Tiernan goes home.",
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        "A male night shift worker."
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        "(dated) A male night shift worker."
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        "A nightwatchman; a guard who works at night."
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          "text": "1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London: E. Nutt (etc.), p. 54,\nThat the Laystalls be removed as far as may be out of the City, and common Passages, and that no Nightman or other be suffered to empty a Vault into any Garden near about the City."
        },
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        },
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          "text": "1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, London: G. Woodfall & Son, Volume II, The Street-Folk, p. 193,\nI have met with nightmen who have told me that there was “nothing particular” in the smell of the cesspools they were emptying; they “hardly perceived it.” One man said, “Why, it’s like the sort of stuff I’ve smelt in them ladies’ smelling-bottles.”"
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        "(historical) A person whose job is cleaning cesspools or sewers, or emptying privies by night."
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          "ref": "1927 December 11, “Vandals”, in Time:",
          "text": "Doorman John Healy comes to work Sunday morning bringing a partly finished bottle of whiskey. He greets his colleague, George Tiernan, nightman, with the suggestion that they “kill the quart” before Mr. Tiernan goes home.",
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      "word": "night-man"
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