packing-case

See also: packing case

English

Noun

packing-case (plural packing-cases)

1. Alternative form of packing case
   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 184:

     There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker arm-chairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had also emerged some Indian clubs, […]; and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.