释义 |
egg-box A box in which eggs are packed. Also attrib. and transf. (= egg-crate).
1854Dickens Hard T. i. iv. 20 That was the cot of my infancy; an old egg-box. 1937Discovery May 134/2 The men [sc. egg-stealers]..were equipped with egg-boxes, coils of rope, climbing irons. 1952Archit. Rev. CXI. 17/2 ‘Eggbox’ screens may be designed across roof openings to obscure views of the sky for all normal angles of vision. |