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spring boxes

spring boxes is the plural of spring box.

Meaning of spring box

Noun

spring box (plural spring boxes)

  1. A small compartment or box built over or placed into running water so that containers of perishable foods (milk, etc) inside it are kept cool, a traditional method of refrigeration.
    • Springs […] formed where groundwater was pushed up to the surface as a result of differences in slope in the shallow aquifers. […] Ollice's spring surfaced on a hillside beneath the roots of a giant white oak. It flowed into a cypress-encased spring box where fresh milk was stored in the cold water...2022, Kelby Ouchley, Bayou D’Arbonne Swamp: A Naturalist’s Memoir of Place, page 65

Questions about spring boxes

What is spring boxes the plural of?
Spring boxes is the plural of spring box.

Words near spring boxes in the dictionary

  1. spring beetle
  2. spring beetles
  3. spring bloom
  4. spring blooms
  5. spring box
  6. spring boxes
  7. spring break
  8. spring breaker
  9. spring breakers
  10. spring breaks
  11. spring cart

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