ash-hopper

noun

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

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Meanings

nounash-hopper (plural ash-hoppers)

plural ash-hoppers

  1. UShistoricalA 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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ash-hopper. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ash-hopper

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Chicago

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