Definitions for ashpit

ashpit ash·pit

Spelling: [ash-pit]
IPA: /ˈæʃˌpɪt/

Ashpit is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 149 anagrams from letters in ashpit (ahipst).

Definitions for ashpit

noun

  1. a receptacle in the bottom of a fireplace, under a barbecue, or the like, for the accumulation of ashes.

Origin of ashpit

First recorded in 1790-1800; ash1 + pit1

Examples for ashpit

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

There is a heavy hand-hewn stone sink and a copper caldron with its own firebox and 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).

Henery gazed into the ashpit, and smiled volumes of ironical knowledge.

Draught is regulated in the ashpit by opening or closing the bottom door of the furnace and by the damper on the smoke shaft.

He knew that here he was not on his own ashpit, as they say in the Five Towns.

His having lived six months in ashpit Place was a case in point.

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.'

His duty was to keep the furnaces always at the same heat, and the water in the ashpit always at the same level.

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

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