English Dictionary

ashpan

noun

A container beneath a boiler's furnace, catching ash and clinker that falls through the firebars / A container that fits below the grate of a domestic fireplace.

The ashpan collects the ashes from the boiler's furnace.

意味（1）

A container beneath a boiler's furnace, catching ash and clinker that falls through the firebars

意味（2）

A container that fits below the grate of a domestic fireplace.

意味（3）

(rail transport) A large pan below the grate and firebox of a steam locomotive.

A new ashpan has been fitted, however, with four bottom doors for self-emptying, and a rocking grate with twelve rocking sections.