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packing-case

packing-case is the alternative form of packing case.

Meaning of packing case

Noun

packing case (plural packing cases)

  1. A large, sturdy box or wooden crate used for the secure shipment of goods.
    • In one place, there was a new wooden church, which, having no steeple, and being yet unpainted, looked like an enormous packing-case without any direction upon it.1842, Charles Dickens, “An American Railroad. Lowell and Its Factory System.”, in American Notes for General Circulation. […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, pages 152–153

Forms of packing-case

pluralpacking-cases

Questions about packing-case

What is packing-case the alternative form of?
Packing-case is the alternative form of packing case.

Words near packing-case in the dictionary

  1. packing shit
  2. packing snow
  3. packing tape
  4. packing tapes
  5. packing up
  6. packing-case
  7. packing-cases
  8. packing-needle
  9. packing-needles
  10. packinghouse
  11. packinghouses

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