Jordeloo (3 syl.)

Notice given to passengers when dirty water was thrown from chamber windows into the street. Either “Gare de lʹeau,” or else “Jordaʹ lo!” the mutula being usually called the “Jordan.”

“At ten oʹclock at night the whole cargo is flung out of a back window that looks into some street or lane, and the maid calls ‘Gardy looʹ to the passengers.”—Smollett: Humphrey Clinker.