packing case
See also: packing-case
English
Alternative forms
Noun
packing case (plural packing cases)
- A large, sturdy box or wooden crate used for the secure shipment of goods.
- 1842, Charles Dickens, “An American Railroad. Lowell and Its Factory System.”, in American Notes for General Circulation. […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, pages 152–153:
- In one place, there was a new wooden church, which, having no steeple, and being yet unpainted, looked like an enormous packing-case without any direction upon it.
- 1902, Joseph Conrad, “The End of the Tether”, in Youth: A Narrative: And Two Other Stories, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and sons, →OCLC, part III, page 206:
- [T]he flat packing-case containing the portrait in oils and the three carbon photographs had been pushed under the bed.
Translations
a large, sturdy box or wooden crate used for the secure shipment of goods
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References
- “packing case”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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