jawhole

A hole or an open drain into which sewage or waste water is thrown; the opening of a sewer; or a cesspool or cesspit, an underground pit or container used to collect and store sewage and wastewater from a house in areas without a centralize

This jawhole, as it is connected with the drains of the neighbourhood and of the Palace itself, is a real mouth of Avernus, vomiting at all times, but especially in warm weather, a pestilential stretch on all who live in its vicinity, and being a perpetual cause of dangerous fevers. [...] close to Macbain and Macdonald’s jawhole, one gentleman has suffered a severe attack of fever…

[…] Nor did the mischief end even wi’ that, bad as it was, for ayont his Reverence, was the jawhole, whereinto him, an’ me, an’ the divots played plouter, garrin’ the fulzie jaup in a’ directions, fylin’ a grand table-claith o’ Wattie Webster’s weavin’ an’ my mither’s ain spinnin’, that was dryin’ on a scrog near-bye […] Whaever is curious to ken what thochts were likely to be umost in oor minds when we faund oorsels i’ the jawhole, maun juist gang through a similar operation on their ain accoont, an’ then they’ll be able to speak frae experience. […] But my certie! if I didna mak’ my feet my freends, I did naething; for as soon as I got oot o’ the jawhole, I set aff what I could scour to Treetaps, to my grandfaither, an’ doon the haill story to him.

A jawbox or tenement sink.