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Yankee cheese-box

Yankee cheese-box noun: the USS Monitor, USS Montauk and similar American Civil War-era ironclad ships.

Noun

Yankee cheese-box (plural Yankee cheese-boxes)

  1. (US, dated, slang) The USS Monitor, USS Montauk and similar American Civil War-era ironclad ships.
    • The old description of her departed predecessor, " a Yankee cheese-box on a raft," will give one a better idea of her external appearance than any chapter which could be written.1866, William O. Blake, Pictorial History of the Great Rebellion, volume 2, page 228

Forms of Yankee cheese-box

pluralYankee cheese-boxes

Questions about Yankee cheese-box

What does Yankee cheese-box mean?
Yankee cheese-box means the USS Monitor, USS Montauk and similar American Civil War-era ironclad ships.
What part of speech is Yankee cheese-box?
Yankee cheese-box is a noun.
What is the plural of Yankee cheese-box?
The plural of Yankee cheese-box is Yankee cheese-boxes.

Words near Yankee cheese-box in the dictionary

  1. yanked someone's chain
  2. yankee
  3. Yankee bean
  4. Yankee beans
  5. Yankee cheese
  6. Yankee cheese-box
  7. Yankee cheese-boxes
  8. Yankee dime
  9. Yankee dimes
  10. Yankee Doodle
  11. Yankee Doodles

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