Ash-hopper

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Noun
  1. 1
    A cask filled with ash used to produce lye, which would be leached out by water (especially rainwater). US, historical

    "There was an ash-hopper by the fence, and an iron pot, for soft-soap-boiling, near it."

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"There was an ash-hopper by the fence, and an iron pot, for soft-soap-boiling, near it."

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