ashed

Verb

ash (third-person singular simple present ashes, present participle ashing, simple past and past participle ashed)

1. (ambitransitive) To reduce to a residue of ash. See ashing.
   • I dried the extracted leather very slowly on the steam bath […] until the substance was dry enough to ash. […] I think that the discrepancy in the percentages of "total ash" by method No. 2 and No. 6 is due to this excessive heat required to ash the leather […]1919, Harry Gordon, Total Soluble and Insoluble Ash in Leather, published in the Journal of the American Leather Chemists Association, W. K. Alsop and W. A. Fox, eds, volume XIV, number 1, on page 253
2. (Australia, ambitransitive) To hit the end off (a burning cigar or cigarette).
   • "Nonsense," Mrs. Gardiner challenged, ashing her cigarette.1936, F.J. Thwaites, The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards Publishing, published 1940, page 62
3. (transitive, chiefly passive voice) To mark (someone) with an ashen cross on the forehead to observe Ash Wednesday.
4. (obsolete, chiefly passive voice) To cover newly-sown fields of crops with ashes.
   • Last spring, after I planted, I took what ashes I have saved during the last year, and put on my corn […] . On harvesting I cut up the two rows which were not ashed (or twenty rods of them,) and set them apart from the others in stouts; and then I cut up two rows of the same length, on each side...1847, H., Ashes on Corn.---An Experiment, published in the Genesee Farmer, volume 8, page 281

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