1958 ‘Miss Read’ xix. 206 The rain was making music upon the empty milk crates beside the door-scraper.
1974 2 Jan. 12/1 Robin Young went to Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park... He found the milkcrate orators (soap-boxes being a thing of the past).
1991 Apr. 110/1 They were drinking out of jelly jars instead of glasses and sitting on milk crates around the kitchen table.