Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Ashes containing lye or potash, and thus useful in making soap.
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Examples
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The stems have been generally thrown away, or burnt with refuse tobacco for the purpose of soap-ashes; but the introduction of snuff-mills has, within
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings
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Colony, and also was compounded from the animal fats available and the soap-ashes, which were plentiful.
Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century Annie Lash Jester
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Poles and Germans, skilled in their own country in the production of pitch, tar, glass, and soap-ashes.
Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings Mary Johnston 1903
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Smith at once set the whole colony to work, some to make glass, tar, pitch, and soap-ashes, and others he conducted five miles down the river to learn to fell trees and make clapboards.
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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Smith at once set the whole colony to work, some to make glass, tar, pitch, and soap-ashes, and others he conducted five miles down the river to learn to fell trees and make clapboards.
Captain John Smith Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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He looks for a good effect to follow -- that the small profit of raising tobacco "will cause the people to come together to work upon soap-ashes, iron, rape-oil, madder, pitch and tar, flax and hemp."
A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy 1856
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The quantity of soap-ashes brought to the Osha market amounts, one year with another, to about three thousand camel loads.
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I was astonished to see nobody but women in the tents, but was told that the greater part of the men had gone to Ghaza to sell the soap-ashes which these Arabs collect in the mountains of
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I was astonished to see nobody but women in the tents, but was told that the greater part of the men had gone to Ghaza to sell the soap-ashes which these Arabs collect in the mountains of
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The Arabs of the Belka, especially the Beni Szakher, bring here Kelly or soap-ashes, which they burn during the summer in large quantities: these are bought up by a merchant of Nablous, who has for many years monopolized the trade in this article.
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