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(verb/noun) - (1) To go hither and thither in search of anything. Ash-batherer, a man who collected ashes for sale. --Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary, 1898-1905 (2) Formerly, within the memory of many, it was customary for men to go about and buy up wood-ashes at farm-houses and cottages and carry them in bags on horse or donkey-back, and retail them for making lye for washing purposes, or for cleaning wooden ware, and as a substitute for soda. --Robert Lawson's Upton-on-Severn Words and Phrases, 1884
January 26, 2018