spit-box

Updated: May 31, 2025

An old negro prefers to put his meal bags in a covered wagon, and drive them to market at his leisure, with his pocket full of the tobacco he helped to raise, and the whole country for a spit-box, to being whirled away bodily in a railroad car, in terror of his life, deaf with the whistling and the puffing of the engine. George Harris is a natural Abolitionist, with a dark complexion.

Mary H. (Mary Henderson) Eastman - Aunt Phillis's Cabin: Or, Southern Life As It Is

By the regulations of the ship, the forecastle was cleaned out every morning; and the crew, being very neat, kept it clean by some regulations of their own, such as having a large spit-box always under the steps and between the bits, and obliging every man to hang up his wet clothes, &c. In addition to this, it was holystoned every Saturday morning.

Richard Henry Dana - Two Years Before the Mast