ash-hopper

noun

noun

US, Historical A cask filled with ash used to produce lye, which would be leached out by water (especially rainwater).

There was an ash-hopper by the fence, and an iron pot, for soft-soap-boiling, near it.1873, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], Charles Dudley Warner, chapter I, in The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, published 1874, →OCLC, page 18:

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