ash-pit

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• Ash

  ·noun ·sg of Ashes. II. Ash ·vt To strew or sprinkle with ashes. III. Ash ·noun The tough, elastic...

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• Pit

  ·noun ·see Pit of the stomach (below). II. Pit ·vt To place or put into a pit or hole. III. Pit ·n...

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• Ash

  (Heb. o'ren, "tremulous"), mentioned only Isa. 44:14 (R.V., "fir tree"). It is rendered "pine tree" ...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• Pit

  A hole in the ground (Ex. 21:33, 34), a cistern for water (Gen. 37:24; Jer. 14:3), a vault (41:9), a...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• pit

  1) A watch fob. He drew a rare thimble from the swell's pit. He took a handsome watch from the gentl...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• ash

  n. The name, with various epithets, isapplied to the following different Australasian trees – – Bla...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• pit

  (Dutch, pit, a kernel.) The kernel or nut of fruit; as, a cherry-pit. Peculiar to New York. You put...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• pit

  In the dockyards. See saw-pit. ...

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• Ash

  (Heb. oren), only in (Isaiah 44:14) As the true ash is not a native of Palestine, some understand th...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Pit

  [Hell] ...

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• Ash Wednesday

  ·- The first day of Lent; — so called from a custom in the Roman Catholic church of putting ashes, ...

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• Ash-colored

  ·adj Of the color of ashes; a whitish gray or brownish gray. ...

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• Ash-fire

  ·noun A low fire used in chemical operations. ...

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• Ash-furnace

  ·noun ·Alt. of Ash-oven. ...

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• Ash-oven

  ·noun A furnace or oven for fritting materials for glass making. ...

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• Cyclone pit

  ·add. ·- A cellar or excavation used for refuge from a cyclone, or tornado. ...

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• Pit-hole

  ·noun A pit; a pockmark. ...

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• bottomless pit

  The monosyllable. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• blueberry ash

  n. a Victorian tree, Elaeocarpus holopetalus, F. v. M. 1894. `Melbourne Museum Catalogue, Economic...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• ash-hopper

  A lie cask, or an inverted pymmidal box to contain ashes, resembling a hopper in a mill. They are co...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• ash trug

  a coal-scuttle. Cumb. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• pit-pan

  A flat-bottomed, trough-like canoe, used in the Spanish Main and in the West Indies. ...

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• pit-powder

  That made with charcoal which has been burned in pits, not in cylinders. ...

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• rifle-pit

  Cover hastily thrown up by one or two skirmishers, but contributing, when a line of them is joined t...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• pit-a-pat

  The palpitation of the heart: as, my heart went pit-a-pat. Pintledy-pantledy; the same. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• moreton-bay ash

  n. See ash. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris