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POWDER BOX

Specialty Definition: POWDER BOX

DomainDefinition

Mining

A wooden box in a miner's breast or chamber, in which were kept black powder, cartridge paper, cartridge stick, squibs, lampwick, chalk, andtools. Syn:tool box. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: POWDER BOX

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

powder box

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: POWDER BOX

Language Translations for "POWDER BOX"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏علبة البودرة (puff, vanity case). (various references)

   

Czech

  

pudřenka (compact, puff box). (various references)

   

Danish

  

pudderdaase (powder bowl, powder-box), pudderbakke (powder case, powder tray, powder trough, starch tray). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

poederdoos (powder bowl, powder-box), poederbak (powder case, powder tray, powder trough, starch tray). (various references)

   

French

  

poudrier (powder compact), coffret d'amidon (powder case, powder tray, powder trough), caisse poudre (powder case, powder tray, powder trough), boîte de poudre, boîte poudre (powder bowl, powder-box). (various references)

   

German

  

Puderkasten (powder case, powder tray, powder trough, starch tray), Puderdose (compact, powder tin). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κιβώτιο αμυλόσκονης (powder case, powder tray, powder trough, starch tray), κασόνι νισεστέ (powder case, powder tray, powder trough, starch tray), κουτί πούδρας (powder bowl, powder-box). (various references)

   

Italian

  

portacipria (compact, powder compact), scatola per materie polverulenti (powder bowl, powder-box), scatola per cipria (powder bowl, powder-box), cassetta per amido (powder case, powder tray, powder trough, starch tray). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

owderpay oxbay

   

Portuguese

  

caixa para pó-de-arroz (powder bowl, powder-box), caixa para pó (powder bowl, powder-box), caixa de amido (powder case, powder tray, powder trough, starch tray). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

pudrijera (vanity case). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

polvera (compact, powder compact). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

пудреница. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: POWDER BOX

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-d-e-o-o-p-r-w-x"

-3 letters: browed, powder, probed.

-4 letters: booed, bored, bowed, bower, boxed, boxer, brood, dobro, doper, dower, droop, orbed, oxbow, pedro, pored, power, poxed, probe, rebop, redox, robed, rodeo, roped, rowed, wooed, wooer.

-5 letters: bode, boor, bore, bred, brew, broo, brow, doer, door, dope, dore, dorp, drew, drop, expo, oboe, odor, oped, ordo, owed, pood, poor.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Expressions: Internet
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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