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Manger :: Manger (n.) A trough or open box in which fodder is placed for horses or cattle to eat.

Unbox :: Unbox (v. t.) To remove from a box or boxes.

Vinaigrette :: Vinaigrette (n.) A small perforated box for holding aromatic vinegar contained in a sponge, or a smelling bottle for smelling salts; -- called also vinegarette..

Chest :: Chest (n.) A large box of wood, or other material, having, like a trunk, a lid, but no covering of skin, leather, or cloth..

Refrigerator :: Refrigerator (n.) A box or room for keeping food or other articles cool, usually by means of ice..

Rattlebox :: Rattlebox (n.) A toy that makes a rattling sound; a rattle.

Launder :: Launder (n.) A trough used by miners to receive the powdered ore from the box where it is beaten, or for carrying water to the stamps, or other apparatus, for comminuting, or sorting, the ore..

Nab :: Nab (n.) The keeper, or box into which the lock is shot..

Boxhaul :: Boxhaul (v. t.) To put (a vessel) on the other tack by veering her short round on her heel; -- so called from the circumstance of bracing the head yards abox (i. e., sharp aback, on the wind)..

Plait :: Plait (n.) A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat; as, a box plait..

Wherret :: Wherret (n.) A box on the ear.

Truck :: Truck (v. i.) A swiveling carriage, consisting of a frame with one or more pairs of wheels and the necessary boxes, springs, etc., to carry and guide one end of a locomotive or a car; -- sometimes called bogie in England. Trucks usually have four or six wheels..

Ditty-box :: Ditty-box (n.) A small box to hold a sailor's thread, needless, comb, etc..

Boxing :: Boxing (n.) The external case of thin material used to bring any member to a required form.

Seedbox :: Seedbox (n.) A capsule.

Kit :: Kit (m.) A box for working implements; hence, a working outfit, as of a workman, a soldier, and the like..

Box :: Box (n.) A tree or shrub, flourishing in different parts of the world. The common box (Buxus sempervirens) has two varieties, one of which, the dwarf box (B. suffruticosa), is much used for borders in gardens. The wood of the tree varieties, being very hard and smooth, is extensively used in the arts, as by turners, engravers, mathematical instrument makers, etc..

Hatbox :: Hatbox (n.) A box for a hat.

Box-iron :: Box-iron (n.) A hollow smoothing iron containing a heater within.

Collar :: Collar (n.) A ring or round flange upon, surrounding, or against an object, and used for restraining motion within given limits, or for holding something to its place, or for hiding an opening around an object; as, a collar on a shaft, used to prevent endwise motion of the shaft; a collar surrounding a stovepipe at the place where it enters a wall. The flanges of a piston and the gland of a stuffing box are sometimes called collars..

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