ditty box

English

Noun

ditty box (plural ditty boxes)

1. A small box to hold a sailor's thread, needles, comb, etc.

Related terms

• ditty bag

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ditty box”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)