单词 | black ash |
释义 | black ashn.1 North American. A North American ash, Fraxinus nigra (formerly called F. sambucifolia), found in wetlands in the north-eastern United States and eastern Canada; (also) the timber of this tree, which can be separated into flexible strips by pounding and is used in basket-making and cooperage. Also called hoop-ash, swamp ash. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > ash and allies > [noun] ashc700 fraynec1325 wood-browna1400 wild ash1552 white ash1578 manna tree1665 black ash1673 white ash1683 water ash1709 manna ash1715 hoop-ash1763 red ash1773 shrew-ash1776 blue ash1783 swamp ash1794 weeping ash1807 green ash1810 cockscomb ash1850 Oregon ash1857 1673 in Hist. Coll. Essex Inst. (1864) VI. 178/2 A forked Black ash which is alsoe osmund trask his bound. 1728 in Rec. Early Hist. Boston (1883) III. 222 We are of Opinion That no Popler,..Black ash, Basswood, or Ceder Shall be Corded up. 1785 M. Cutler in Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 1 492 Fraxinus..The White Ash. The Red Ash. The Black Ash. The Prickley Ash. 1842 Z. Thompson Hist. Vermont i. 211 Black ash. Fraxinus sambucifolia..is sometimes called Swamp Ash. 1872 1st Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1871–2 154 An experiment had been tried by a Cornwall farmer, packing butter in spruce, oak and black ash tubs. 1927 A. C. Parker Indian How Bk. i. xviii. 80 The common basket splint requires a search for a good black ash log, which must be..skinned of its bark and then pounded over its entire surface. 1967 Humboldt (Iowa) Independent 28 Oct. 3/4 The black ash is a lower flood plain tree which reaches a height of 50-70 feet and has a rounded or oval crown. 2007 M. Williams Identifying Trees 138 Black Ash has been used for centuries to make woven baskets, barrel hoops, and chair bottoms. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). black ashn.2 Chemistry. Now historical. In the manufacture of sodium carbonate by the Leblanc process: a mixture of sodium carbonate and calcium sulphide formed at an intermediate stage, which is washed (lixiviated) with water to obtain the pure carbonate. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > organic salts > [noun] > carbonates anatron1706 carbonate1788 marine alkali1791 black ash1803 semi-carbonate1808 oxycarbonate1819 potash1823 hydrocarbonate1843 magnesium carbonate1871 thiocarbonate1883 polycarbonate1886 1803 Repertory of Arts 2nd Ser. 4 2 How Barilla and Kelp is to be prepared for Soap-making... I separate the neutral salts contained in soap-makers spent lie, their salts prepared from spent lie, and the black ash prepared from their salts or spent lie. 1841 Mechanics' Mag. 4 Dec. 448/2 The masses of black ash, or impure carbonate of soda,..are placed in layers of about 3 or 4 inches deep in a close vessel of stone or iron. 1884 A. Watt Art of Soap-making 50 The leys are made from..black ash, the impurities in which give the mottled or marbled ‘strike’ for which this variety of soap is famed. 1922 T. M. Lowry Inorg. Chem. xxxii. 570 Manufacture of soda by the Leblanc Process... Black-ash Process... The product is known as black ash. 1949 Paper Making (Brit. Paper & Board Makers' Assoc.) (1950) iv. 65 Formerly the black ash was leached in tanks with hot water, to dissolve out the sodium carbonate. 2003 K. M. Dunn Caveman Chem. xx. 252 Bejeezical carbon dioxide flies the coop leaving black ash, a mixture of sodium carbonate, calcium sulfide, and residual coal and limestone. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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