packing box

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packing box

n
(Mechanical Engineering) another name for stuffing box
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
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Noun1.packing box - a small chamber in which packing is compressed around a reciprocating shaft or piston to form a sealpacking box - a small chamber in which packing is compressed around a reciprocating shaft or piston to form a seal
chamber - a natural or artificial enclosed space
packing nut, stuffing nut - a nut used to tighten a stuffing box
2.packing box - a large crate in which goods are packed for shipment or storagepacking box - a large crate in which goods are packed for shipment or storage
crate - a rugged box (usually made of wood); used for shipping
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On Thanksgiving the lamp arrived in a large packing box, and was taken out and set up by See- saw Simpson, who suddenly began to admire and respect the business ability of his sisters.
Jurgis had come home with a big packing box on his head, and he sent Jonas to get another that he had bought.
As soon as Billy could sit in a highchair or an ordinary packing box on the floor, she kept him with her while she went about her different tasks, cooing and laughing with him as she worked, but when he needed attention she could disregard calling dishes, chickens, half-churned butter, unfinished ironing, unmilked cows or an irate husband with a placidity that was worthy of the old Greek gods.
Now, Muscat Duty free has introduced a new packing box for customers travelling to some destinations.
It's the packing box in the removal van in Downing Street" Tory leader David Cameron "The Tories offer an attack plan on Europe and retreat for Britain.
Both the cleaners and the packing box have a distinctive yellow and black logo.
have collaborated in developing a packing box that can be used over a hundred times.
TAMWORTH Register Office has moved - including one woman who has registered births of three sets of triplets, many twins and a baby named after a word on the side of a packing box Pat Power has worked in the old office, in Albert Road, for 22 years first as a deputy registrar and has now been a fully-fledged registrar for five years.
WHY-FLY needs to know how many of each color balloon is being made, so he can get the right sized packing box. He's in a big hurry!
PROOF that a new packing box developed by a Hinckley firm can take the weight of a lorry.
But, loathe to wrestle with a dense, virtually impossible-to-follow instruction book-let - and feeling more than a little victimized - the consumer packs up as many parts as he can find, stuffs them, often angrily, into the packing box, and heads back to the retail store from whence his expensive new toy came.
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