Sump

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A puddle or dirty pool.

II. Sump ·noun A pond of water for salt works.

III. Sump ·noun A round pit of stone, lined with clay, for receiving the metal on its first fusion.

IV. Sump ·noun The cistern or reservoir made at the lowest point of a mine, from which is pumped the water which accumulates there.