deed box

British  

noun

1. a lockable metal box for storing documents

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Example Sentences

But “it was as if they merely checked off their 'good deed' box and then forgot about him”, he says.

From Nature

Mr. Dwerrihouse pulled out his deed box, put his travelling-cap in his pocket, resumed his hat, took down his umbrella, and prepared to be gone.

From Project Gutenberg

The matter, he said, was put to a practical test thus: two iron rails were supported on brickwork at a height of about eighteen inches from the ground, and underneath them a strong fire of wood shavings and chips was made, and when this had well burnt up, a deed box filled with papers was pushed along the rails to the centre of the fire, where it was completely enveloped in the flames, and there it remained for a space of twenty minutes.

From Project Gutenberg

There are ritual objects like an 18th-century silver and coral Torah case from Iraq, as well as equipment from one of the East End’s last Jewish bakeries and unclaimed items from a “deed box” of the Jews’ Temporary Shelter that housed new immigrants in early-20th-century London.

From New York Times

The box indicated was one of ordinary thin sheet iron, japanned black—something like what is called a deed box.

From Project Gutenberg