crate
/kɹeɪt/ noun C1- A large open box or basket, used especially to transport fragile goods.
- A vehicle (car, aircraft, spacecraft, etc.) seen as unreliable.
- In the Rust programming language, a binary or library.
Plural crates
From the library
Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all round with crates and massive boxes.
Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones.
The crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between layers of lead foil.
I shall stand behind this crate, and do you conceal yourselves behind those.
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