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Yankee cheese-boxes

Yankee cheese-boxes is the plural of Yankee cheese-box.

Meaning of Yankee cheese-box

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

Questions about Yankee cheese-boxes

What is Yankee cheese-boxes the plural of?
Yankee cheese-boxes is the plural of Yankee cheese-box.

Words near Yankee cheese-boxes in the dictionary

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

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