Noun
pearl ash (countable and uncountable, plural pearl ashes)
- Alternative form of pearlash
1791 December 5, Alexander Hamilton, “Alexander Hamilton’s Final Version of the Report on the Subject of Manufactures”, in edited by Harold C. Syrett, The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, volume 10, New York: Columbia University Press, published 1966, →LCCN, →OCLC: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.