Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A place where ashes are put, either temporarily or permanently.
  • noun A device for dumping the ashes from a furnace or conveyer.

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Examples

  • The mean ash-dump landscape stretches on from nowhere to nowhere, a spot of mange.

    Lin McLean Owen Wister 1899

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