crate
noun
a slatted wooden box or framework for packing, shopping, or storing fruit, furniture, glassware, crockery, etc.
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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The system now pursued directly defeats that end; it has crated the most thorough mediocrities that any government hostile to superiority could desire.
From The Village Rector by Katharine Prescott Wormeley