"funnel box" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1790, Ignaz von Born, New Process Of Amalgamation Of Gold And Silver Ores",
          "text": "The calcined stuff, as it comes from the furnace, is thrown through a hopper or shaking funnel box between two metal cylinders, through which both the coarſer particles and clods fall",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "An apparatus for collecting finely crushed ore from water."
      ],
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          "apparatus",
          "apparatus"
        ],
        [
          "ore",
          "ore"
        ],
        [
          "water",
          "water"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(mining) An apparatus for collecting finely crushed ore from water."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "mining"
      ]
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  "word": "funnel box"
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          "ref": "1790, Ignaz von Born, New Process Of Amalgamation Of Gold And Silver Ores",
          "text": "The calcined stuff, as it comes from the furnace, is thrown through a hopper or shaking funnel box between two metal cylinders, through which both the coarſer particles and clods fall",
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        }
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        "An apparatus for collecting finely crushed ore from water."
      ],
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          "apparatus",
          "apparatus"
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          "ore",
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        ],
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          "water",
          "water"
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        "(mining) An apparatus for collecting finely crushed ore from water."
      ],
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  "word": "funnel box"
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