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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A container beneath a boiler's furnace, catching ash and clinker that falls through the firebars.
They have been fitted with a complete rocking grate and a hopper ashpan so that the ashes can be released without the necessity for a man to go underneath the engine.
A new ashpan has been fitted, however, with four bottom doors for self-emptying, and a rocking grate with twelve rocking sections.
During the day conditions worsened quickly—for example, a 2-6-0 on the Uckfield line suddenly encountered flood water high enough to enter its ashpan and extinguish its fire—until lock gates up-river at Barcombe gave way and a tidal wave rolled down the valley meeting head-on a spring tide rolling up from the coast.
Use ash pan when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Ash pan means A container beneath a boiler's furnace, catching ash and clinker that falls through the firebars.
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
They have been fitted with a complete rocking grate and a hopper ashpan so that the ashes can be released without the necessity for a man to go underneath the engine.
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