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fly ash

noun

Definition of FLY ASH

:  fine solid particles of ashes, dust, and soot carried out from burning fuel (as coal or oil) by the draft
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First Known Use of FLY ASH

1931

Rhymes with FLY ASH

abash, backlash, backslash, backsplash, bone ash, calash, Chumash, cold cash, czardas, encash, eyelash, gate-crash, goulash, green flash, heat rash, hot flash, Lagash, mishmash, mustache, panache, potash, rehash, slapdash, soutache, stramash, tongue-lash, unlash, Wabash, whiplash, white ash

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