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ash-hopper

ash-hopper noun: a cask filled with ash used to produce lye, which would be leached out by water (especially rainwater).

Noun

ash-hopper (plural ash-hoppers)

  1. (US, historical) A cask filled with ash used to produce lye, which would be leached out by water (especially rainwater).
    • There was an ash-hopper by the fence, and an iron pot, for soft-soap-boiling, near it.1873, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], Charles Dudley Warner, chapter I, in The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, published 1874, →OCLC...

Forms of ash-hopper

pluralash-hoppers

Questions about ash-hopper

What does ash-hopper mean?
Ash-hopper means a cask filled with ash used to produce lye, which would be leached out by water (especially rainwater).
What part of speech is ash-hopper?
Ash-hopper is a noun.
What is the plural of ash-hopper?
The plural of ash-hopper is ash-hoppers.

Words near ash-hopper in the dictionary

  1. ash-heap-cake
  2. ash-heap-cakes
  3. ash-heaps
  4. ash-hole
  5. ash-holes
  6. ash-hopper
  7. ash-hoppers
  8. ash-leaf
  9. ash-leaved maple
  10. ash-leaves
  11. ash-red

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