BANDBOX PLOT

Domain	Definition
Literature	Bandbox Plot (The) Rapin (History of England, iv. 297) tells us that a bandbox was sent to the lord-treasurer, in Queen Anne's reign, with three pistols charged and cocked, the triggers being tied to a pack-thread fastened to the lid. When the lid was lifted, the pistols would go off, and shoot the person who opened the lid. He adds that [dean] Swift happened to be by at the time, and seeing the pack-thread, cut it, thereby saving the life of the lord-treasurer. "Two ink-horn tops your Whigs did fill With gunpowder and lead; Which with two serpents made of quill, You in a bandbox laid; A tinder-box there was beside, Which had a trigger to it, To which the very string was ty'd That was designed to do it." Plot upon Plot (about 1713). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Anagrams: BANDBOX PLOT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-b-d-l-n-o-o-p-t-x"
	-4 letters: bandbox, platoon.
	-5 letters: babool, baboon, dalton, doblon, dopant.
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