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1. USA wooden box measuring 12 × 20 × 8 inches.

   Beside the bed is an apple box standing on end, on top of the box a candle planted in the neck of a wax-coated wine bottle.

   1998, Edward Abbey, The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel

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   The standard size of an apple box shall be eighteen inches long, eleven and one-half inches wide, ten and one-half inches deep, inside measurement.

   1913, Fruit Products Congress, The Apple Annual, page 67

   You would then nail an old wooden apple box, which we always had plenty of, on top of the board leaving a space behind for your foot to ride.

   2010, James D. Heintz, Apple Box Boy: Slices of Life, page 34