noun
General Slang
ess'ole
· noun · brummie
The ash-hole — the pit under the grate where the coal ash falls.
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Definitions
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The ash pit beneath an old coal-fire grate. By extension, the fireplace itself. Common in the back-to-backs of industrial Birmingham and the Black Country, where everyone had a coal range and someone had to rake the ess'ole out every morning.
“Empty the ess'ole afore yer light the fire.”
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ess'ole In A Sentence
Empty the ess'ole afore yer light the fire.
Origin & Usage
Contraction of 'ash hole'. When every house had a coal fire, the ess'ole was the bit underneath that caught the cinders. The word outlived the fireplaces.
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