kerosene box

noun

A sturdy, rectangular crate, typically of pine, designed to hold two tin-plated steel cans filled with kerosene; the empty cases were often repurposed for ad hoc uses.

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Meanings

nounkerosene box (plural kerosene boxes)

plural kerosene boxes

  1. AustraliaA sturdy, rectangular crate, typically of pine, designed to hold two tin-plated steel cans filled with kerosene; the empty cases were often repurposed for ad hoc uses.

    Next morning, after the ceremony, with our wedding breakfast packed in a kerosene box, we drove to Camden.

    1933, Frank Clune, Try Anything Once, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 186
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