ashlar

See ashler. ash-leach (ash'lēch), n. A hopper in which ashes are placed during the proce of the removal of their soluble salts by lixiviation. ashler, ashlar (ash'ler, -lär), n. [Early mod. E. also astler, asler, etc., It. a e = F. ais ), a board, plank, also spelled axis, and the same word as axis, axis: see axis and astel.] 1. A block of building-stone, rough as it is brought from the quarry; such stones collectively. - 2. In masonry, a squared stone, IMG:content-1227.png:[blocks in formation] Asiarch a narrow tool; pointed, when wrought with a tool still narrower; rusticated, or quarry - faced, when the joints only are hewn, the face of the stone being left irregular; prison rustic, when pitted into deep holes; herring - bone, when tooled obliquely in alternate directions; and nigged, when dre ed with a pointed hammer. The ashler buttre braves its force, And ramparts frown in battled row. Scott, Cadyow Castle. Droved ashler, a Scotch name for ashler of inferior quality, whether chiseled or random-tooled.