loose box

See also: loosebox and loose-box

English

Noun

loose box (plural loose boxes)

1. (chiefly British) A separate compartment of a building in which livestock are free to move about; especially a form of stable for horses.
   • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 164:

     Long before you see the lean, handsome heads peering mildly over the half-doors of the loose boxes, you know that East Ilsley's business is training racehorses.

2. (archaic) A brougham or other vehicle kept for the use of a dame de compagnie.

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary