apple-box
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[edit]Noun
[edit]apple-box (plural apple-boxes)
- Alternative form of apple box
- 1910, British Columbia Fruit-Growers' Association, Annual Report - Issues 20-27, page 56:
- They look better and ship better in the half apple-box.
- 1985, Lora Wood Hughes, No Time for Tears, page 132:
- An old cook stove, a few cracked dishes, an apple-box cupboard on the wall, two cots and mattresses, a table, and a couple of chairs.
- 2014, Stephen King, Joyland:
- I'd seen it all fifty times or more (and sometimes wondered how many butts were piled up beneath that box), but this time, instead of lifting the apple-box, he just went right on leaning.