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pearl ash en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable) Alternative form of pearlash.
   alt of pearlash
   • There are other articles also of great importance, which tho’ strictly speaking manufactures are omitted, as being immediately connected with husbandry: such are flour, pot & pearl ash, Pitch, tar, turpentine and the like. 1791 December 5, Alexander Hamilton, “Alexander Hamilton’s Final Version of the Report on the Subject of Manufactures”, in Harold C. Syrett, editor, The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, volume 10, New York: Columbia University Press, published 1966, →LCCN, →OCLC:

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