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loose-box

loose-box is the alternative spelling of loose box.

Meaning of loose box

Noun

loose box (plural loose boxes)

  1. (UK) A separate compartment of a building in which livestock are free to move about; especially a form of stable for horses.
    • Long before you see the lean, handsome heads peering mildly over the half-doors of the loose boxes, you know that East Ilsley's business is training racehorses.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 164
  2. (archaic) A brougham or other vehicle kept for the use of a dame de compagnie.

Forms of loose-box

pluralloose-boxes

Questions about loose-box

What is loose-box the alternative spelling of?
Loose-box is the alternative spelling of loose box.

Words near loose-box in the dictionary

  1. loose tongue
  2. loose tongues
  3. loose up
  4. loose woman
  5. loose women
  6. loose-box
  7. loose-boxes
  8. loose-coupled
  9. loose-eyed
  10. loose-fitting
  11. loose-handed

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