"ashpit" meaning in All languages combined

See ashpit on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: ashpits [plural]
Etymology: From ash + pit. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|ash|pit}} ash + pit Head templates: {{en-noun}} ashpit (plural ashpits)
  1. A pit for the disposal of ashes.
    Sense id: en-ashpit-en-noun-gL-ex3AX
  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". Categories (topical): Rail transportation
    Sense id: en-ashpit-en-noun-v8kdYhxq Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 11 89 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 8 92 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 7 93 Topics: rail-transport, railways, transport
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: ash pit

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ash",
        "3": "pit"
      },
      "expansion": "ash + pit",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From ash + pit.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ashpits",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ashpit (plural ashpits)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “An Encounter”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A pit for the disposal of ashes."
      ],
      "id": "en-ashpit-en-noun-gL-ex3AX",
      "links": [
        [
          "ash",
          "ash"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Rail transportation",
          "orig": "en:Rail transportation",
          "parents": [
            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "11 89",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "8 92",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "7 93",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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\"."
      ],
      "id": "en-ashpit-en-noun-v8kdYhxq",
      "links": [
        [
          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
        ],
        [
          "steam locomotive",
          "steam locomotive"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(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\"."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "ash pit"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ashpit"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English compound terms",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ash",
        "3": "pit"
      },
      "expansion": "ash + pit",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From ash + pit.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ashpits",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ashpit (plural ashpits)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “An Encounter”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A pit for the disposal of ashes."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ash",
          "ash"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Rail transportation"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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\"."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
        ],
        [
          "steam locomotive",
          "steam locomotive"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(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\"."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "ash pit"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ashpit"
}

Download raw JSONL data for ashpit meaning in All languages combined (1.5kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-18 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (e4a2c88 and 4230888). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.