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What is an ashpit?

What is an ashpit? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A pit for the disposal of ashes.
  2. (rail transport) a pit between the rails where a steam locomotive can drop its fire at the end of a day's work, before going "on shed".
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There is a heavy hand-hewn stone sink and a copper caldron with its own firebox and ashpit.
Henery gazed into the ashpit, and smiled volumes of ironical knowledge.
Meanwhile the police court seems to me as necessary a part of our equipment as a sewage works or an ashpit.
His having lived six months in ashpit Place was a case in point.
His duty was to keep the furnaces always at the same heat, and the water in the ashpit always at the same level.
I hid my books in the long grass near the ashpit at the end of the garden where nobody ever came and hurried along the canal bank.

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