packing case

packing case

See also: packing-case

English

Alternative forms

• packing-case

Noun

packing case (plural packing cases)

1. A large, sturdy box or wooden crate used for the secure shipment of goods.
   • 1842, Charles Dickens, American Notes, ch. 4:

     In one place, there was a new wooden church, which, having no steeple, and being yet unpainted, looked like an enormous packing-case without any direction upon it.

   • 1902, Joseph Conrad, The End of the Tether, ch. 3:

     [T]he flat packing-case containing the portrait in oils and the three carbon photographs had been pushed under the bed.

Translations

a large, sturdy box or wooden crate used for the secure shipment of goods

Ido: kesto (io)

Manx: kishtey paggal m

References

• packing case at OneLook Dictionary Search