View sign 'ashes'

ashes

Description

(meaning: wood reduced by fire to powder)

Make signs for TIMBER, for FIRE, then bring right hand in front of body, back upwards, hand compressed, fingers partially curved; rub the tips of fingers with tip of thumb several times.


Synonyms: dust

Notes

Clark notes that usually in conversation the last part is the only gesture used, such abbreviations are common in Indian sign language.

Tomkins does not mention this sign.