applebox

applebox (plural appleboxes)

1. Alternative form of apple box
   • 1967, The Westerners Brand Book, page 65:

     He took me to his old garage and there on the dirt floor was a miscellaneous assortment of items, enough to fill an applebox.

   • 2009, Lonnie L.Willis, The True Adventures of a Texas Sharecropper Kid, page 3:

     I was jubilant when my mother tossed a pillow and me into the applebox, and sang popular songs to me.

   • 2017, Fiona Farrell, Decline and Fall on Savage Street, →ISBN, page 104:

     Sybil had picked armfuls of lilies and daisies and roses from the garden and every single gladiolus, gathering them in the earliest morning when they were fresh and packing them carefully into an applebox on the carrier of her bike.