溜ため

noun

cesspool; sink; manure pit

Refers to a pit or tank for collecting waste, especially manure or sewage. Often appears in compounds like 肥溜め (manure pit).

See also: 肥溜め

• 昔むかしの農のう家かには肥こえ溜だめがあった。

  Old farmhouses had a manure pit.

• 溜ためが溢あふれそうだ。

  The cesspool is about to overflow.