† soap-ashesn.
Obsolete.
Ashes of certain kinds of wood used in forming a lye in soap-making.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > vegetable extracts or preparations > [noun] > wood-ash to make lye
woad ash1354
soap-ashes?1520
wood-ash1748
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > products of burning > [noun] > ashes or cinders > specific ashes
soap-ashes?1520
gravelled ashes1579
bone ash1594
cupel-dusta1626
polverine1662
peat ash1669
kelp1679
clar1683
cupel-ashes1683
wood-ash1748
bone earth1770
kelp-ashes1834
white ash1837
weed ash1841
fly ash1931
?1520 J. Rastell Nature .iiii. Element sig. Cijv Pyche and tarre and sope asshys.
1557–71 A. Jenkinson Voy. & Trav. (1886) II. 208 Sope ashes are not here in such request that they will acquite the Chardges.
1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia ii. 25 Of Ash and Elme they make sope Ashes.
1651 J. French Art Distillation vi. 194 Boyle it in a Lixivium made of sope-ashes.
1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 392 The great goodness there is in these Soap-ashes and all others.
1794 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. 132 In the neighbourhood of towns, soap-ashes are frequently..used as a manure.
1837 R. Ellis Laws & Pract. Regulations Customs III. 401 Soap Ashes are synonymous with Wood Ashes.
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