ash-hopper

== English == === Noun === ash-hopper (plural ash-hoppers) (US, historical) A cask filled with ash used to produce lye, which would be leached out by water (especially rainwater). === References === “ash-hopper, n.” under “ash, n.2”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “ash-hopper”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes I (A–C), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 1519.