Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An apparatus for lilting ashes, as from the ash-pit of a locomotive-engine house, the boiler-room in a building, or the stoke-room of a vessel.
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A big swarthy-faced man who was standing near the ash-hoist was awaiting him.
Tessa 1901 Louis Becke 1884
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