Yankee cheese-box

noun

The USS Monitor, USS Montauk and similar American Civil War-era ironclad ships.

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nounYankee cheese-box (plural Yankee cheese-boxes)

plural Yankee cheese-boxes

  1. USdatedslangThe USS Monitor, USS Montauk and similar American Civil War-era ironclad ships.

    The old description of her departed predecessor, " a Yankee cheese-box on a raft," will give one a better idea of her external appearance than any chapter which could be written.

    1866, William O. Blake, Pictorial History of the Great Rebellion, volume 2, page 228
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