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packing-case

n. (alternative form of packing case English)

Usage examples of "packing-case".

So every day they used to sit down to breakfast and dine together at a little table contrived out of a packing-case, and placed under an extemporised tent, for all the world like a young couple picnicking on their honeymoon.

Sealed packing-cases went north and east and west to various pantechnicons, and the engines were boxed with peculiar care.

Titania, when she saw the remodelled packing-case that served Bock as a retreat.

Round about the camp a number of objects had collected in a short time, such as packing-cases, building materials, empty sledges, etc.

Waterhouse was still sleeping off the effects of his last dose of chlorodyne, and Pollock sat down on a packing-case beside him, and, lighting his pipe, waited for him to awake.

I ransacked packing-cases and capsules, and when we reached the lower deck I was unable to resist looking into the cold store.