packing-case

A form of packing case — A large, sturdy box or wooden crate used for the secure shipment of goods.

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Meanings

nounpacking-case (plural packing-cases)

plural packing-cases

  1. alternativeAlternative form of packing case.
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    There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker arm-chairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had also emerged some Indian clubs,[…]; and all these articles[…]made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.

    1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 184
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APA

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Chicago

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