What is "crated"

Usage examples of "crated".

The cooling was being done from outside the magazine, with hoses rigged to through-bulkhead hose connections: in spite of it the temperature was still rising, and there were still two crated missiles to come out.

Trouble is the crated ones aren't fast Two to go, and one of them was up on the overhead traveller ready to be slung aft to the check-room for uncrating.

Sam told Fleet Chief Chubb, 'Carry on: let's have two empty spaces next to crated stowage quick as lightning.

In the crated missile section immediately for'ard of the check-room the temperature had reached forty-eight and the water on the deck wasn't far off boiling.

Jane will be crated and it will be obvious that some piece of thoroughly non-robotic equipment is being transported to the labs.

It was a long glum run to Bataan with Branch Hoban on the driver's seat beside Byron, in an Army truck groaning with crated mines.

Jastrgw, could I not have them crated up for you, after you go, and sent to Switzerland or Sweden?

It meant that instead of flying a tough route via South America and Africa with a lot of crack-ups, or coming crated on convoy vessels which the U-boats could sink, the aircraft would now funnel in directly over a safe straight route.

It is evidently a rare material, for scraps and table sweepings go to the grinder, and the powder is crated and shipped to Germany like the trimmed sheets.

This was like walking into a deep and well organized woods, wide avenues cutting through crated and evenly spaced trees of every conceivable kind.

There was no direct passageway, and I angled back and forth between the crated trees.

I was waiting for the sound of the car door slamming, but Mark had bumped his way across the low concrete barrier and was driving down the wide lanes between the crated trees.

The yellow forklift was now blocking the lane, parked beside the shed with a crated fifteen-foot tree hoisted on the forks.

I could see that Mark was corralled in the cul-de-sac formed by the wreckage of the shed, a row of crated trees, and the tractor, which was picking up speed again as Duffy accelerated.

Or, in all the confusion of the war, were they simply crated, stored and forgotten in Hanover or in the East Berlin warehouse of the Gustav Knauer transport firm?