• packing-case

packing case (plural packing cases)

1. A large, sturdy box or wooden crate used for the secure shipment of goods.
   • 1842, Charles Dickens, “An American Railroad. Lowell and Its Factory System.”, in American Notes for General Circulation. […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, pages 152–153:

     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”, in Youth: A Narrative: And Two Other Stories, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and sons, →OCLC, part III, page 206:

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

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