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apple box en · NOUN

Etymology

Presumably originally used to transport apples.

Meanings

1. (US) A wooden box measuring 12 × 20 × 8 inches.
   • The standard size of an apple box shall be eighteen inches long, eleven and one-half inches wide, ten and one-half inches deep, inside measurement. 1913, Fruit Products Congress, The Apple Annual, page 67:
   • Beside the bed is an apple box standing on end, on top of the box a candle planted in the neck of a wax-coated wine bottle. 1998, Edward Abbey, The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel:
   • You would then nail an old wooden apple box, which we always had plenty of, on top of the board leaving a space behind for your foot to ride. 2010, James D. Heintz, Apple Box Boy: Slices of Life, page 34:

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Hypernyms

box