ashpit

Definitions

Examples

• Meanwhile the police court seems to me as necessary a part of our equipment as a sewage works or an ashpit.

• It is composed of a double cylinder of copper or cast-iron l, l, having a grate b (see plan), an ashpit at d (section).

• Children—and sometimes old children—think that a little hag resides in the ashpit beside the fire.

• You was starin' up at the sky at a lark—I was going to the ashpit—and I heard you say softly to yourself, 'Bird, thou never wert.'

• Oak drew a slow breath, looked sadly into the bright ashpit, and seemed lost in thoughts not of the most hopeful hue.