dirty pool

The above was in allusion to the old ceremony of being dragged through the dirty pool to be made a Freeman of the town of Alnwick.

Most of these were actually dry, but many of them contained a dirty pool of stagnant water.

Two of them bear on their heads each a large basket of dirty clothes they are taking to some dirty pool to wash.

By the pump, the horse-trough, and the dirty pool I knew that there was entertainment there for man and horse.

Putting the poor animal's head into this dirty pool, and keeping it there till it was nearly suffocated.