Ash Hole

Enniscorth, and she was so poor she had no clothes to put on her son; so she used to fix him in the ash-hole, near the fire, and pile the warm ashes about him; and according as he grew up, she sunk the pit deeper. ❋ Joseph Jacobs (1885)

When everything had been examined and placed on its appropriate end of the table, Miss Panney called for an empty coalscuttle, into which she tumbled, without regard to spilling or breakage, the whole mass of medicaments which had been prepared or prescribed by herself, and she then requested the servant to deposit the contents of the scuttle in the ash-hole. ❋ Frank Richard Stockton (1868)

The old woman's cabbage, in the ash-hole, withered away entirely; but the old man's grew and grew, grew up to the floor. ❋ William Ralston Shedden Ralston (1858)

The old man planted a cabbage-head in the cellar under the floor of his cottage; the old woman planted one in the ash-hole. ❋ William Ralston Shedden Ralston (1858)

Don't you know that St. Dunstan's devil emerged from the ash-hole? ❋ Unknown (1856)

Yes, I dare say there is a secret ash-hole in the chimney; for where do all the ashes go to that we drop down the queer hole yonder? ' ❋ Unknown (1856)

This provoked the Irishman and his wife, and as the old man was taking out ashes from an ash-hole, the master went down, and as the slave raised his head, the man struck him about the temple, with a long handled scrubbing-brush. ❋ Unknown (1856)

The dog in the ash-hole makin 'brose, Doon comes a cinder and burns his nose. ❋ Unknown (1847)

The servant-girl, who, though careless, was honest, confessed she recollected having accidentally left this bucket in that dangerous place the preceding evening; that she was going with it across the yard to the ash-hole, but she heard her lover whistle to her from the lane, and she set down the bucket in a hurry, ran to meet him, and forgot the ashes. ❋ Maria Edgeworth (1808)

By this time mother comes creeping down-stairs, like an old tabby-cat out of the ash-hole; and she kind o 'doubts and reckons whether or no she had better try to git any breakfast, bein' as she 's not much appetite this mornin '; but she goes to the leg of bacon and cuts off a little slice, reckons sh'll broil it; then goes and looks at the coffee-pot and reckons sh'll have a little coffee; don't exactly know whether it's good for her, but she don't drink much. ❋ Stowe, Charles Edward (1889)

(when so be they've none been i 'th' ash-hole), and some's tabby, and some's black as iron; but they all scrats. ❋ Emily Sarah Holt (1864)

"What devil, wife, prompted you to crawl into the ash-hole! ❋ Unknown (1856)

"What devil, wife, prompted you to crawl into the ash-hole? ❋ Herman Melville (1855)

"Dude how was she last night" "TERRIBLE she just [laid] there, and used way to much [teeth]" "What an ash-hole" "[Indeed]" ❋ Herm Westerfield (2013)

there's [ashes] [all over] [my bed] what an ash-hole ❋ Ali2dope (2010)

[Look at that] ash-hole ❋ Dragon_boi (2021)

Mt. [Vesuvius] is a mean ash-hole that [wiped out] [Pompeii] in Roman times. ❋ JD (2005)

1. Dude, that guy just turned your sisters [rear] into an [ashhole]. Wow.... 2. What isn't that [Ashhole] helping out? ❋ Suffokate (2005)

pass me the [ash hole] so i can [put out] my [fag] ❋ Fagbot (2003)

Dude [schwab] your [ash] came all the way back into my car, now its all over [my seat] stop being such a ash-hole. ❋ The Legendary 94 Century Buick (2010)

That damn [Pierce Brosnan] played [bond] all wrong...what an [ash hole] ❋ Shaggy34 (2010)

[Casino] Dealer: "Sir, please be careful with your cigarette. We have enough [ash] holes on this table already." (Or, to make it sound [complimentary] instead of insulting:) "Sir, we don't need any ash holes on this table!" ❋ Acoustic Bob (2010)

The airlines are saying to disgruntled stranded customers, "The [Ash Hole] is an act of God. It's not like anyone can stop a volcano. Except maybe [Al Gore]." [Ummmmm].... Ay-jah-fah-yall-a-joe-coo? Whatever. The Ash Hole. ❋ Imlora (2010)