ashpit

In the ashpit was a heap of potatoes roasting, and a boiling pipkin of charred bread, called "coffee," for the benefit of whomsoever should call, for Warren's was a sort of clubhouse. used as an alternative to the inn.

Far from the Madding Crowd 1874

In the ashpit was a heap of potatoes roasting, and a boiling pipkin of charred bread, called “coffee”, for the benefit of whomsoever should call, for Warren’s was a sort of clubhouse, used as an alternative to the inn.

Far from the Madding Crowd 1874

When the deadly wand was reduced to grit, she carefully swept all traces of it into the ashpit.

Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003

I hid my books in the long grass near the ashpit at the end of the garden where nobody ever came and hurried along the canal bank.

Dubliners 2003

Equally satisfying in its way, and certainly no less inge? nious, is the little-known fireplace ashpit.

I'm A Stranger Here Myself Bryson, Bill 1999

In theory the ashpit must eventually fill up, but ours seems to be bottomless.

I'm A Stranger Here Myself Bryson, Bill 1999

It isn't really necessary, but it gives me an excuse to go down in the basement, and I always welcome that because basements are, after the garbage disposal and the ashpit, the third great feature of American life.

I'm A Stranger Here Myself Bryson, Bill 1999

Taking his cue from an offhand remark Kidd made to The Washington Post (April 2, 1985), Gabler added in 1986 a period after "bottom of the ashpit" (page 624) in the structural middle of Molly Bloom's otherwise unpunctuated soliloquy.

'The Scandal of Ulysses': An Exchange Adams, Robert M. 1988

He halted right in front of the ashpit and pointed to the wall that separated the two pits.

Dragon Drums McCaffrey, Anne, 1926- 1979

"See that little window above the ashpit?" he asked the guard excitedly.

Dragon Drums McCaffrey, Anne, 1926- 1979