apple-box

noun

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of apple box.

    • They look better and ship better in the half apple-box.
    • 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.
    • 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.

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