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apple box

noun

Etymology

Presumably originally used to transport apples.

Definitions

  1. 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.

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