carton

plural cartons

1. countableuncountableAn inexpensive, disposable box-like container fashioned from either paper, paper with wax-covering (wax paper), or other lightweight material.

   a carton of milk or eggs

   Synonyms: cardboard box, container, package

2. countableuncountableA pack of cigarettes, usually ten, wrapped in cellophane or packed in a light cardboard box.
3. AustraliacountableuncountableA cardboard box that holds (usually 24) beer bottles or cans.

   Mr Yunupingu was referred to the clinic where I was working at that time, Northside Clinic, for treatment of his alcohol problem. I think he described drinking between one and four cartons every single day - it's quite a phenomenal amount.

   2009 October 19, Oliver O'Connell, Message From Mr Yunupingu

   Synonyms: case

4. archaiccountableuncountableA kind of thin pasteboard.
5. archaiccountableuncountableA small disc within the bullseye of a target.
6. archaiccountableuncountableA shot that strikes this disc.

present singular third person cartons · participle present cartoning · participle past cartoned · past cartoned

1. To put in a carton.

1. A surname.

   The more business he got, the greater his power seemed to grow of getting at its pith and marrow; and however late at night he sat carousing with Sydney Carton, he always had his points at his fingers' ends in the morning.

   1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities