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Definition of Asheries
1. ashery [n] - See also: ashery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Asheries
Literary usage of Asheries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memories of the Old Homestead by Henry Harrison Lyman (1900)
"The construction of these asheries was mostly by his own labor and from material
on the ... These asheries, as shown by his books, were operated from to. ..."
2. The Annals of Albany by Joel Munsell (1854)
"It has about 50 houses, 3 stores, 2 asheries, 3 grist and 2 saw mills, 4 carding
and clothiers' works, 5 tanneries, 3 of which are very extensive, ..."
3. The Town of St. Johnsbury, Vt.: A Review of One Hundred Twenty-five Years to by Edward Taylor Fairbanks (1914)
"In process of time asheries or ... years the products of these asheries were a
principal article ..."
4. Annual Report of the American Institute of the City of New York (1855)
"The burning of the primitive forest, and the gathering up of the ashes and the
selling of them to the asheries for ten or twelve cents a bushel, ..."
5. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists (1869)
"Tanneries, asheries, saw-mills, dye-houses, in fact all kinds of manufacturing
establishments on streams interfere with the mollusks and other forms of life ..."
6. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Richard Vaughan Barnewall, Cresswell Cresswell (1826)
"... at the spring assizes tor the county oyster-layings, of Essex, 1825, it appeared
that the plaintiff was tenant asheries'of him for life of an estate at ..."
7. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1859)
"Flour-mills 1 Saw-mills 7 Plaster-mills 1 Tanneries and morocco factories 17 10
Soap and candle factories and asheries .. 16 18 Stone and marble works. ..."
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