dredging box

historical

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

Japanese Meaning

料理用：砂糖や小麦粉などを振りかけるための、穴あきの蓋が付いた容器。 / 軍事用（歴史的）：砲弾の導火線に粉末を撒くための、銅製で穴あきの蓋が付いた箱状の容器。

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After cooling the cake, she used the dredging box to sprinkle a fine layer of powdered sugar.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

ケーキを冷ました後、彼女は粉ふり器を使って薄く粉砂糖を振りかけた。

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Sense（1）

(cooking) A dredger (container with a perforated lid used for scattering sugar or flour).

Sense（2）

(military, historical) A copper box with a perforated lid, used for sprinkling meal powder over shell fuses.

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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dredging boxes

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