loose box

noun

A separate compartment of a building in which livestock are free to move about; especially a form of stable for horses.

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Meanings

nounloose box (plural loose boxes)

plural loose boxes

  1. UKA separate compartment of a building in which livestock are free to move about; especially a form of stable for horses.

    Long before you see the lean, handsome heads peering mildly over the half-doors of the loose boxes, you know that East Ilsley's business is training racehorses.

    1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 164
  2. archaicA brougham or other vehicle kept for the use of a dame de compagnie.
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APA

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Chicago

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