dredging boxとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

dredging box (複数形 dredging boxes)

1. (cooking) A dredger (container with a perforated lid used for scattering sugar または 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.