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Ash-pan   /æʃ-pæn/   Listen
Ash-pan

noun
1.
A receptacle fitted beneath the grate in which ashes collect and are removed.






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"Ash-pan" Quotes from Famous Books



... force of the sea thrown over a rising ledge into a hole at the distance of twelve or fifteen paces; a sufficient evidence of the violence of the storm and the agitation of the sea on the rock. The smith's forge was also shifted from its place—the ash-pan of the hearth with its ponderous cast-iron back had been washed from their places of supposed security, the chains of attachment broken, and these weighty articles found at a very considerable distance in ...
— Smeaton and Lighthouses - A Popular Biography, with an Historical Introduction and Sequel • John Smeaton



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