"ashpan" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From ash + pan.",
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        "A container beneath a boiler's furnace, catching ash and clinker that falls through the firebars"
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        "A container that fits below the grate of a domestic fireplace."
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          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1960 March, “Testing a rebuilt \"Merchant Navy\" Pacific of the S.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 167:",
          "text": "A new ashpan has been fitted, however, with four bottom doors for self-emptying, and a rocking grate with twelve rocking sections.",
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          "ref": "1961 January, “Talking of Trains: Flooding at Lewes”, in Trains Illustrated, page 5:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "(rail transport) A large pan below the grate and firebox of a steam locomotive."
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