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ashpit
ashpit
See also: ash pit
English
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Noun
ashpit (plural ashpits)
- A pit for the disposal of ashes.
- James Joyce, An Encounter
- I hid my books in the long grass near the ashpit at the end of the garden where nobody ever came and hurried along the canal bank.
- James Joyce, An Encounter
- (rail transport) a pit between the rails where a steam locomotive can drop its fire at the end of a day's work, before going "on shed".