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Definition of Ash-pan
1. Noun. A receptacle fitted beneath the grate in which ashes collect and are removed.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ash-pan
Literary usage of Ash-pan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"This portable auxiliary grate is set in the place occupied by the ash-pan when
it IB desired to start a fire in the fire-pot; and when thus placed, ..."
2. The Liability of Railroads to Interstate Employees: A Study of Certain by Philip Joseph Doherty (1911)
"THE ASH PAN LAW. Under the terms of the Employers' Liability Act a railroad
company cannot plead the defenses of assumption of risk or contributory ..."
3. The Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry by Society of Chemical Industry (1884)
"Water being continually fed to this pan overflows, falling from bar to bar into
the ash-pan below. An air-tight or closely-fitting door, with adjustable ..."
4. Official Proceedings (1919)
"REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON "Effect of Proper Upkeep of Ash Pan and Front End Draft
Appliances on Fuel Economy" and "Methods Used in Determining Proper Design ..."
5. Reports of Admiralty Cases: Argued and Adjudged in the District Courts of by John Stoughton Newberry (1885)
"It is in proof also that by measurement, the new ash-pan fitted the vessel for
which it was made, and that the old one was unfit for service, ..."
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