ash-hopper

When we got home the house was all dark and still; so we went on down to the hut by the ash-hopper for to examine it.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 2003

I went around and clumb over the back stile by the ash-hopper, and started for the kitchen.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 2003

"Dem dat know too much sleep under de ash-hopper" (Uncle Remus) clearly intimates to all who know about the old-fashioned ash-hopper that such an individual lies.

Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study Thomas Washington Talley

Billy now left me for her, and I followed the two to that part of our yard where the tall ash-hopper stood, which ever after was like a story book to me.

The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate Eliza Poor Donner Houghton

She had watched her aunt make soap out of lye dripping from an ash-hopper.

Oh, You Tex! William MacLeod Raine 1912

I continued fifteen months, during which time I preached at various private houses in the neighborhood, insomuch that one man remarked that I had preached at every man's house, except his "ash-hopper."

The John Lawson Monographs of the Trinity College Historical Society Durham, North Carolina Vol. 1. The Autobiography of Brantley York 1910

He stood up and strode as far in their direction as the ash-hopper under the apple-tree, and raised both his hands, as if he were frightening away a flock of crows.

Northern Georgia sketches, 1900

There was a broken harrow, with rusty iron teeth, leaning against the house near the log steps; a top-heavy ash-hopper and a lye-stained trough stood under the spreading branches of a beechnut-tree beside a rotting cider-press and a huge pot for heating water during hog-killing or for boiling lye and grease for the making of soap.

Dixie Hart 1888

The potato-house was a vast white billow, the ash-hopper was a marble vase, and the fodder-stack was a great conical ermine cap, belonging to some mountain giant who had lost it in the wind last night.

The Young Mountaineers Short Stories Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

The log house with its chimney of clay and sticks, the barn of ruder guise, the fodder-stack, the ash-hopper, and the rail fence were all imposed in high relief against the crimson west and the purpling ranges in the distance.

Down the Ravine Mary Noailles Murfree 1886