ashfield

plural ashfields

1. A field that is covered in ash.

   Components of oil-shale ash deposited on ashfields, consumed or ejected with exhaust gases.

   2004, R. Gieré, Peter Stille, Energy, Waste and the Environment: A Geochemical Perspective, page 282

   2 more examples

   The ashfield of ten square miles above Nicolosi, created by the eruption of 1669, which was entirely barren in 1835, is now planted with vines almost to the summits of Mone Rosso, at a height of three thousand feet.

   1874, George Perkins Marsh, The Earth as Modified by Human Action, page 150

   His mind was a field of ashes, most of his hope gone. But there were hot coals of anger under the ashfield, and any indication that she still respected him as an adversary would feed his ego and fan flames from those coals.

   2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner, page 282

1. A place in England:
   1. A local government district in Nottinghamshire.
   2. A small village in Romsey Extra parish, Test Valley district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU3619).
   3. A suburb of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire (OS grid ref SO5923).
   4. A hamlet in Oswestry Rural parish, Shropshire (OS grid ref SJ3025).
   5. A village in Ashfield cum Thorpe parish, Mid Suffolk district, Suffolk, now also known by the parish name (OS grid ref TM2162).
2. A hamlet by Loch Sween in Knapdale, Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NR7685).
3. A hamlet in Stirling council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NN7803).
4. A small settlement in Llansadwrn community, Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN6928).
5. A place in Australia:
   1. A suburb of Sydney in Inner West council area, New South Wales.
   2. A suburb and rural locality in Bundaberg Region, Queensland.
   3. A suburb of Perth in the Town of Bassendean, Western Australia.
6. A place in the United States:
   1. A town in Franklin County, Massachusetts.
   2. An unincorporated community in East Penn Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania.