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dredging box

dredging box noun: a container with a perforated lid, used for scattering sugar, flour, or other powder such as hair powder or meal powder).

Noun

dredging box (plural dredging boxes)

  1. (historical) A container with a perforated lid, used for scattering sugar, flour, or other powder such as hair powder or meal powder)
    • To render the fuzes of mortar shell more certain of taking fire, meal powder was sprinkled over them, after the shell had been placed in the mortar, from a dredging box.2013, Francis A. Lord, Civil War Collector's Encyclopedia
    Synonyms:
    dredger

Synonyms of dredging box

Forms of dredging box

pluraldredging boxes

Questions about dredging box

What does dredging box mean?
Dredging box means a container with a perforated lid, used for scattering sugar, flour, or other powder such as hair powder or meal powder).
What part of speech is dredging box?
Dredging box is a noun.
What is the plural of dredging box?
The plural of dredging box is dredging boxes.

Words near dredging box in the dictionary

  1. dredgermen
  2. dredgers
  3. dredges
  4. dredges up
  5. dredging
  6. dredging box
  7. dredging boxes
  8. dredging up
  9. dredgings
  10. dredlocks
  11. dreds

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