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dredging boxes

dredging boxes is the plural of dredging box.

Meaning of dredging box

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

Questions about dredging boxes

What is dredging boxes the plural of?
Dredging boxes is the plural of dredging box.

Words near dredging boxes in the dictionary

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

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