Meanings
noundistributing-box (plural distributing-boxes)
plural distributing-boxes
- An electrical distributor.
Every lamp on that fuse is cut off and in the distributing-box in the hall you will find a burned-out wire.
1914, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados
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