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dust-box
1. A box from which ‘dust’, i.e. fine sand or powder, is sprinkled on something (e.g. on writing, for the purpose now served by blotting-paper; also, on a prepared photographic plate).
1581Mulcaster Positions iii. (1887) 34 Incke and paper,..a deske and a dustboxe. 1894Brit. Jrnl. Photog. XLI. 33 Place some pulverised asphaltum in a ‘dust-box’, agitate it, and allow the particles to settle down upon the plate.
2. A box or receptacle for the dust of a house.
1896E. Turner Little Larrikin ii. 17 On the footpaths there were dust-boxes twice a week. 1906E. Dyson Fact'ry 'Ands xvi. 219 They've dumped Toucher in ther dust-box for immedjit removal.
3. (See quot. 1893.)
1893Funk's Stand. Dict., Dust box, a box supplied with dust for the use of poultry, to aid them in expelling lice. 1894Vermont Agric. Rep. XIV. 176 Fix a dust box so that biddy can take a bath every day. |