Ashpan
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Ashpan is a noun meaning A container beneath a boiler's furnace, catching ash and clinker that falls through the firebars.
Meaning
A container beneath a boiler's furnace, catching ash and clinker that falls through the firebars.
More Meanings
- A container that fits below the grate of a domestic fireplace.
- (rail transport) A large pan below the grate and firebox of a steam locomotive.
Example Sentences
A new ashpan has been fitted, however, with four bottom doors for self-emptying, and a rocking grate with twelve rocking sections.
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.
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.
Word Forms
- ashpans
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include ashcan, ashpit, ash-tray, ash-bin, bosh, breeze.
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