Gold Finder (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Gold Finder

One whose employment is to empty necessary houses; called also a tom-turd-man, and night-man: the latter, from that business being always performed in the night.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

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