crate
noun/kreɪt/
/kreɪt/
- a large wooden container for transporting goods
- The spider was found hiding in a crate of bananas.
Extra Examples- Their possessions had all been packed into shipping crates.
- They packed the books into the crates.
- They stacked the crates in the corner of the yard.
- a company specializing in shipping crates
- a crate of oranges
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- metal
- plastic
- wooden
- …
- pile
- stack
- pile
- stack
- pack something in
- …
- contain something
- crate of
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- a container made of plastic or metal divided into small sections, for transporting or storing bottles
- The man was sitting on an upturned beer crate.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- metal
- plastic
- wooden
- …
- pile
- stack
- pile
- stack
- pack something in
- …
- contain something
- crate of
- the amount of something contained in a crate
- They drank two crates of beer.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- metal
- plastic
- wooden
- …
- pile
- stack
- pile
- stack
- pack something in
- …
- contain something
- crate of
Word Originlate Middle English: perhaps related to Dutch krat ‘tailboard of a wagon’, earlier ‘box of a coach’, of unknown origin.
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