pearl ash

pearl ash (countable and uncountable, plural pearl ashes)

1. Alternative form of pearlash.
   • 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^[1], 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.