ashpan

It is not a pleasant sensation to have steady old Mother Earth rocking like an "ashpan" leaf beneath your feet.

Fanny Goes to War Pat Beauchamp Washington

The General took a whiff and a sip of tea, put his cigarette into a malachite ashpan, with his narrow eyes fixed on Nekhludoff, listening seriously.

Resurrection 2003

But the ash began to shake, and Wolf carefully carried it to the ashpan, into which it fell.

Resurrection 2003

He also bought cheap cotton calico which would make everyday dresses for dealing with pigs and poultry, sewing thread, needles, scissors, some yard rules and trowels for himself, and an iron stove with a fire grate and ashpan in its base surmounted by an oven with a flat top and a hole for a chimney.

Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

He also bought cheap cotton calico which would make everyday dresses for dealing with pigs and poultry, sewing thread, needles, scissors, some yard rules and trowels for himself, and an iron stove with a fire grate and ashpan in its base surmounted by an oven with a flat top and a hole for a chimney.

Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

All I got out of it was where to find an ashpan drop-bottom, steam accumulators and why they are still used, and the ability to recognize a three-cylinder locomotive by sound alone. '

Funeral In Berlin Deighton, Len, 1929- 1964

Everyone went out to the graveyard, and when we came back the chairs were all in rows, as they had been for the service; the fire was out, and some of the men who had come to the funeral had missed the ashpan of the kitchen stove and spat on the floor around it.

Aleta Dey 1919

He reads nothing in Russian, but on his writing table there is a silver ashpan in the shape of a peasant’s plaited shoe.

Chapter XXVIII 1917

The hole where the magazine used to fit in made a place for the frying pan, and the open doors in front, where the ashpan used to be, took in the wood we collected along the river.

Boy Scouts in Mexico; or on Guard with Uncle Sam 1909

Me mouth is like an ashpan, there's hot fish - bolts in me head,

'Hello, Soldier!' Khaki Verse Edward Dyson 1898