"dredging box" meaning in English

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          "text": "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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        "A container with a perforated lid, used for scattering sugar, flour, or other powder such as hair powder or meal powder)"
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        "(historical) A container with a perforated lid, used for scattering sugar, flour, or other powder such as hair powder or meal powder)"
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