ash-pit

Alternatively, you might be apologizing for unintentionally offending the delicate sensibilities of the Olympic organizers, who don't like being reminded that their capital city is a wheezing, soot-choked ash-pit.

Sean Carman: The Beijing Olympics: Masking the Problem 2009

Had she for one minute left this scraping sound of the small shovel in the ash-pit of the furnace?

Main Street 2004

Whereas previously he could barely hear the rattling of coals from the coal-scuttle, he was now able to catch the sound of an ash falling into the ash-pit.

Initials Only 2003

‘She SHALL not look so much finer than us,’ they cried passionately to each other as soon as they were alone; and when night came they stole out of their rooms, and taking out the wedding-dress, they laid it in the ash-pit, and heaped ashes upon it.

The Brown Fairy Book 2003

Rune propped the broom in a corner by the fireplace and emptied the ashes and clinkers into the ash-pit beneath the fireplace floor.

The Lark And The Wren Lackey, Mercedes 1992

Use damper and not ash-pit doors | Because less excess air is to control draft. | admitted by so doing.

Engineering Bulletin No 1: Boiler and Furnace Testing

The door has to be opened so frequently in this method, and in pushing the coals from the dead-plate to the bars a large amount of live fuel drops down into the ash-pit, and if this should be thrown into the furnace again, the fire is deadened immediately.

The Stoker's Catechism W. J. Connor

The chief point is to have a good set of firebars and well placed; if they are too long they will hump in the middle or they will bulge sideways; if they are too close together they become red-hot because there is not room enough for the air to pass between them to keep them moderately cool, and if they are too short they will drop down into the ash-pit.

The Stoker's Catechism W. J. Connor

Twelve stalls of the existing round-house were extended to accommodate the motive power; a large transfer table and pit were increased in size, and an additional ash-pit and engine storage tracks were constructed.

Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Meadows Division and Harrison Transfer Yard. Paper No. 1153 E. B. Temple

A good-natured engineer came out on the ash-pit track to welcome me to the West and the road, and incidentally to remark that it was a great relief to the gang that I had come as I did.

Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers John A. Hill