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funnel boxes

funnel boxes is the plural of funnel box.

Meaning of funnel box

Noun

funnel box (plural funnel boxes)

  1. An apparatus for collecting finely crushed ore from water.
    • The calcined stuff, as it comes from the furnace, is thrown through a hopper or shaking funnel box between two metal cylinders, through which both the coarſer particles and clods fall1790, Ignaz von Born, New Process Of Amalgamation Of Gold And Silver Ores

Questions about funnel boxes

What is funnel boxes the plural of?
Funnel boxes is the plural of funnel box.

Words near funnel boxes in the dictionary

  1. funned
  2. funned up
  3. funnel
  4. funnel account
  5. funnel box
  6. funnel boxes
  7. funnel cake
  8. funnel cakes
  9. funnel chanterelle
  10. funnel chanterelles
  11. funnel chart

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