Definition of "packing-case" [packing-case]

• Alternative form of packing case. (noun)

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• "He procured a packing-case from the woodpile in the cellar, fitted"
• "A huge packing-case affair, complete with exposed struts and sacking was, according to pictorial hints in the programme, supposed to evoke the Wailing Wall or the ruins of Kabul or Palmyra."
• "He seated himself on his packing-case again, blowing smoke-rings and watching them hang motionless in that windless cavern, while my skin crawled."