单词 | lug box |
释义 | > as lemmaslug box concrete. A thing which is or needs to be lugged, spec. a box or crate used for shipping fruit. Originally as lug box. North American. ΘΚΠ 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 1916 B. S. Brown Mod. Fruit Marketing i. 15 If they do not care to take the regular packing box into the field, they supply what is known as the ‘lug’ box holding about 50 pounds each. 1921 U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 1196. 29 The lug box is used very extensively in the West for wine grapes. These lugs are..designed to hold from 20 to 40 pounds of grapes. 1929 U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 1579. 6 California avocadoes are shipped in three different sizes of crates known as the lug, the half lug, and the flat. The lug..holds about 2 dozen medium to large fruits. 1949 Los Angeles Times 2 July 5/4 It takes an hour for a lug of grapes to pass through the [precooling] tunnel. 1952 J. Steinbeck East of Eden xxi. 246 You can buy fruit..for two bits a lug. 1977 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 17 July 9/2 A crate of lettuce and two lugs of tomatoes. 1992 D. Morgan Rising in West i. iii. 58 There was a café across the street and outside it a truck piled high with wooden lugs of grapes. < as lemmas |
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