Cloaca

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

(1): (n.) The common chamber into which the intestinal, urinary, and generative canals discharge in birds, reptiles, amphibians, and many fishes.

(2): (n.) A privy.

(3): (n.) A sewer; as, the Cloaca Maxima of Rome.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]

is a name applied by Gregory the Great to the baptismal font. (See Baptistery).

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