deed box

British  

noun

1. a lockable metal box for storing documents

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deed box

Wingrave, who had been engrossed in the contents of his deed box, watched him with immovable face.

From The Malefactor by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

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

From The Red Triangle Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator by Morrison, Arthur

Mur I found the Ravensdale mortgage while rumaging in an old deed box of Coyle's father's, there was a folded paper inside the deed.

From Our American Cousin by Taylor, Tom

The door opened, and Charles entered, with two more lighted candles, one in each hand, preceding Mr Girtle, who came in bearing a large tin deed box.

From The Dark House A Knot Unravelled by Fenn, George Manville

This paper, dated only a few months before my father's death, was in this pocket-book, the other paper in the deed box, of which his executors took possession.

From Bristol Bells A Story of the Eighteenth Century by Marshall, Emma