2. Verb. (third-person singular of crate) ¹
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Definition of Crates
1. crate [v] - See also: crate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crates
Literary usage of Crates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"In a few sections the loose stalks are packed in small boxes or crates, ...
The plants, after being trimmed, are packed upright in these crates, ..."
2. Biennial Report by Kansas State Horticultural Society (1899)
"The large peach growers say that it does not pay to pack any but the finest fruit
in crates. The hardest problem I have had to solve is gathering plums. ..."
3. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1874)
"One large grower, near Smyrna, Del., who cultivates thirty acres, was brought
largely in debt, and yet has invested 86000 in crates, baskets, fixtures, ..."
4. California and the Oriental: Japanese, Chinese and Hindus by California State Board of Control (1922)
"It is also understood by the Grower that the Distributor shall not be liable to
the Grower for failure to furnish such crates or ..."
5. Annotated Cases, American and English by H Noyes Greene, William Mark McKinney, David Shephard Garland (1918)
"had notice that such carrier crates as were offered to it for transportation
consigned to the plaintiff were to be used for the purpose of packing and ..."
6. Strawberry-growing by Stevenson Whitcomb Fletcher (1917)
"eight, forty-five and thirty-six quart crates are used somewhat in the East, but
more eastern strawberries are now shipped in thirty-two quart crates than ..."
7. A Treatise on the Law of Railroads: Containing a Consideration of the ...by Byron Kosciusko Elliott, William Frederick Elliott by Byron Kosciusko Elliott, William Frederick Elliott (1922)
"Overpacking crates used for shipment of fowls.—In a case where the evidence was
clear that the crates for the transportation oí live fowls were overpacked ..."
8. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1824)
"It appears that Hipparchia, smitten with-the noble (spirit and beauty of the
eloquence of crates,-had gamed admittance to his lectures in disguise: but she ..."
9. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"In a few sections the loose stalks are packed in small boxes or crates, ...
The plants, after being trimmed, are packed upright in these crates, ..."
10. Biennial Report by Kansas State Horticultural Society (1899)
"The large peach growers say that it does not pay to pack any but the finest fruit
in crates. The hardest problem I have had to solve is gathering plums. ..."
11. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1874)
"One large grower, near Smyrna, Del., who cultivates thirty acres, was brought
largely in debt, and yet has invested 86000 in crates, baskets, fixtures, ..."
12. California and the Oriental: Japanese, Chinese and Hindus by California State Board of Control (1922)
"It is also understood by the Grower that the Distributor shall not be liable to
the Grower for failure to furnish such crates or ..."
13. Annotated Cases, American and English by H Noyes Greene, William Mark McKinney, David Shephard Garland (1918)
"had notice that such carrier crates as were offered to it for transportation
consigned to the plaintiff were to be used for the purpose of packing and ..."
14. Strawberry-growing by Stevenson Whitcomb Fletcher (1917)
"eight, forty-five and thirty-six quart crates are used somewhat in the East, but
more eastern strawberries are now shipped in thirty-two quart crates than ..."
15. A Treatise on the Law of Railroads: Containing a Consideration of the ...by Byron Kosciusko Elliott, William Frederick Elliott by Byron Kosciusko Elliott, William Frederick Elliott (1922)
"Overpacking crates used for shipment of fowls.—In a case where the evidence was
clear that the crates for the transportation oí live fowls were overpacked ..."
16. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1824)
"It appears that Hipparchia, smitten with-the noble (spirit and beauty of the
eloquence of crates,-had gamed admittance to his lectures in disguise: but she ..."
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