Their possessions had all been packed into shipping crates.
They stacked the crates in the corner of the yard.
They packed the books into the crates.
They packed the crates with books.
a crate of oranges
• ___ & Barrel
• ___ and Barrel
• 71 Box up
• A lot of bananas
• Apple container
• Banana-boat box
• Barrel's partner
• Beat-up jalopy
• Big box
• Box
• Box for oranges
• Box from Florida?
• Box up
• Bucket of bolts
• Cargo container
• Case
• Container for eggs
• Decrepit auto
• Dockworker's burden
• Egg protector
• Farmer's market container
• Farmers' market container, perhaps
• Flivver
• Forklift burden
• Forklift load, often
• Forklifted item
• Fruit box
• Fruit container
• Fruit holder
• Fruit packaging unit
• Fruit-packing unit
• Grapefruit holder
• Heap
• Jalopy
• Jalopy, perhaps?
• Junk car
• Loading dock container
• Loading dock container, perhaps
• Makeshift table
• Motorcycle shipping container
• Nail up
• Not the most reliable set of wheels
• Old bomb
• Old jalopy
• Old plane
• Old, rickety vehicle
• Orange ___ (makeshift furniture)
• Orange box
• Orange container
• Orange holder
• Orange receptacle
• Orchard box
• Orchard container
• Pack peaches
• Pack peaches in parcels
• Pack peppers
• Pack securely
• Package securely
• Packing box
• Packing case
• Packing container
• Pet enclosure
• Place for freight
• Prepare for shipping
• Prepare for shipping, say
• Prepare to ship
• Prepare to ship, perhaps
• Rattletrap
• Rickety airplane
• Rickety car
• Rugged box
• Rust bucket
• Shipping box
• Shipping case
• Shipping container
• Slatted box
• Slatted container
• Slatted wooden container
• Storage unit
• To which shippers react
• USE NO HOOKS stencil site
• Warehouse item
• What might 'e cart around?
• Wholesale quantity, often
• Wickerwork hamper
• Wine bottle holder
• Wooden box
• Wooden container
• Wooden fruit box
• Worn-out auto
• Worn-out jalopy
• Worn-out model
• A rugged box (usually made of wood)
• Used for shipping
old crate - амер. драндулет (об автомобиле); «гроб» (о самолёте)
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In harbors like the Port of Hong Kong, giant cranes pull several million metal crates out of container ships every year.
1. {kreıt} n
1. упаковочная клеть или корзина; обрешётка
2. рама стекольщика
3. разг. развалюха (о самолёте, автомобиле)
old ~ - амер. драндулет (об автомобиле); «гроб» (о самолёте)
2. {kreıt} v
упаковывать в ящики и т. п. (особ. в решетчатую тару)
II {kreıt} n вчт.крейт (устройство, управляемое с помощью ЭВМ)
n
1) дерев'яний ящик; ящик для упаковування (багажу)
2) авіац. сленг літак
crate n infml He was driving his crate to the marketplace Он ехал в своем драндулете на рынок Where'd you get that old crate? Где ты достал эту развалюху?