dredging box

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English

Noun

dredging box (plural dredging boxes)

  1. (cooking) A dredger (container with a perforated lid used for scattering sugar or flour).
  2. (military, historical) A copper box with a perforated lid, used for sprinkling meal powder over shell fuses.
    • 2013, Francis A. Lord, Civil War Collector's Encyclopedia:
      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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dredging box”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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