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ash-hoppers

ash-hoppers is the plural of ash-hopper.

Meaning of ash-hopper

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...

Questions about ash-hoppers

What is ash-hoppers the plural of?
Ash-hoppers is the plural of ash-hopper.

Words near ash-hoppers in the dictionary

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

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