What is "ashfall"

Usage examples of "ashfall".

Then Greldik, Mandorallen and a half-dozen burly sailors armed with clubs strode out of the ashfall, clearing a path with brutal efficiency.

The following morning ashfall that was the result of a massive volcanic eruption somewhere in Cthol Murgos had diminished sufficiently to make the deck of the ship habitable again.

To relieve the boredom of it as they rode through the thickening ashfall, he thought about one of the huge skeletons they had passed when they had first entered the wasteland.

The ashfall grew even thinner, and the sky overhead turned a hazy, yellowish blue.

Everyone was grateful for the fact that the ashfall had nearly ceased.

Mike Voorhies, interview by author, Ashfall Fossil Beds State Park, Nebraska, June 13, 2001.

Breath from our country and blow a three-tier barque along at twelve knots, why should they doubt I could stop the ashfall altogether?

The drifting ashfall, I told myself, was a natural sun shield for the Grub.

He saw fronds just above the waterline, which had recently survived ashfall from a volcano, curl from the heat, turn brown, and fall away.

The ashfall had smothered the waves so the ship sat as solidly as if she were in drydock.

Gantry lights showed the pace of the ashfall was slowing, as was the rain.

King Ashfall used to ally the strongest of the clans to the crown via marriage.

Much of the ejecta curtain was curling into orbit in what would become the smothering ashfall of days to come.

The Oceanids are cowering, covering their heads as if from hot ashfall.

Not practical if you require a fire, but very handy if you protect it when you are suffering heavy clouds, ashfalls, major storms or a twenty-hour night.