Meaning of dredging box | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A dredger (container with a perforated lid used for scattering sugar or flour).
2. A copper box with a perforated lid, used for sprinkling meal powder over shell fuses.
   historical

Examples

“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.”

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