crate
noun
a slatted wooden box or framework for packing, shopping, or storing fruit, furniture, glassware, crockery, etc.
crateful
-
a word derived from
crate.
Example Sentences
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"Today we're taking a crateful of items such as sandwiches and non-perishable items such as isotonic drinks and biscuits," he said.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2018
If her father found one crateful of parrots gone astray, there had to be other such mishaps.
From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2014
Unlike mice, which die of cancer by the crateful, not a single one of her animals has ever developed a naturally occurring tumor.
From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2011
Using a letter from the N.C.M.M. permitting him to export contemporary arts and crafts--but not antiquities--Lagos dealer Chinedu Idezuna recently booked a crateful of works onto a flight to Amsterdam.
From Time Magazine Archive
Say,” the old man shifted uneasily, “I’ve tho’t a crateful sence we wus yarnin’ last night, I guess.
From The Night Riders A Romance of Early Montana by Ridgwell Cullum
