1854 B. P. Shillaber 212 My boy knows very well how to manage it when the slop-pail is within reach.
1859 F. Nightingale i. 14 A slop-pail should never be brought into a sick room.
1864 T. Carlyle IV. xvi. v. 297 Of Hanbury's News-Letters from Foreign Courts, four or five..are like the contents of a slop-pail.