clavellated ashes
Meanings
noun
- A kind of potash (probably in reference to its having been obtained from billets of wood by burning).
Word forms
Etymology
Compare Late Latin cineres clavelatti (“ashes of burnt lees or dregs of wine”), French clavel (“an inferior sort of soda”), English clavate.
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