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packing cases

packing cases is the plural 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

Questions about packing cases

What is packing cases the plural of?
Packing cases is the plural of packing case.

Words near packing cases in the dictionary

  1. packing a lunch
  2. packing a sad
  3. packing a wallop
  4. packing away
  5. packing case
  6. packing cases
  7. packing for Perth
  8. packing fudge
  9. packing heat
  10. packing in
  11. packing needle

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