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ashery
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a place for making potash.
Quotations
1825
Of asheries there are but few in this country, as it is too well settled.
1853
The best situation to erect an ashery upon, is the side of a bank, beside a running stream. . . .
1911
He kept an ashery . . . where the farmers dumped the ashes they obtained from burning the forests they had cleared, getting their pay in store goods.