thunderbox

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A chamber pot enclosed in a box; a portable commode.

   “True, our cash would run out, but Charleton wouldn't let us starve. He'd put us into shorts, and we should wash the dishes and clean the thunder-boxes and take out guests for walks.”

2. isim Any lavatory or toilet, especially a rudimentary outdoor latrine or toilet, or an outhouse.

   “Meantime the ICE [Institute of Consumer Ergonomics] experts are poring over their photographs, and making measurements, which, presumably, will go into a computer, and out will come the specification for the perfect thunderbox.”

3. isim A box of metal balls which is shaken to create a thunder sound effect.

   “[T]wo articles, both indispensibly necessary to a theatre, are not blundered, viz. a property room, and thunder box!—no they are omitted altogether!!”

4. isim A blunderbuss; also, a cannon.

   “In the year 1346, at the battle of Crecy, the engliſh uſed a ſort of cannons, which were then called thunder-boxes.”