egg-boxn.
A box in which eggs are packed. Also attributive and transferred (= egg-crate n.).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > container or package for goods > [noun] > crate or packing-case > specific
egg-box1854
orange crate1889
soap-box1907
lug box1916
egg-crate1943
1854 C. Dickens Hard Times i. iv. 20 That was the cot of my infancy; an old egg-box.
1937 Discovery May 134/2 The men [sc. egg-stealers]..were equipped with egg-boxes, coils of rope, climbing irons.
1952 Archit. Rev. 111 17/2 ‘Eggbox’ screens may be designed across roof openings to obscure views of the sky for all normal angles of vision.
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