squeeze box

squeeze boxes (plural)
squeezebox (alternative)

Jebby rushed to the area behind the mare's paddock. What he saw there filled him with fresh concern. Isabella was in the "squeeze box." This, he knew, was a strait jacket for animals! […] He had seen the old squeeze box sitting in the field behind the hoofed animals' paddock. Zoo keepers had used it in the days before the invention of the Tranquilizer Gun for immobilizing animals when they wanted to inoculate them or treat them for illness or injury. If the squeeze box were used unwisely, a Zoo keeper had told Jebby, an animal inside it could be squeezed almost to death. And it always caused panic as the wooden sides pressed against the trapped creature's body.

1963, Ann Cottrell Free, Forever the Wild Mare, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, →OCLC:

Williams and Sawyer (1995) reported on successful techniques used on a large number of otters in the rehabilitation centers during the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Restraint equipment included heavy leather welder's gloves with long sleeves, a large salmon dip net fitted with an elongated bag of soft 1-in. mesh net, a throw net, blankets, stuff bags, and some sort of squeeze box. […] The bag is quickly placed over the head, shoulders, and thorax, and the otter is held by pressing down on the bag. This is best accomplished while the otter is in the net or squeeze box with the animal on its back and the hind legs held by a second handler[…].

2001, Pamela Tuomi, “Sea Otters”, in Leslie A. Dierauf, Frances M. D. Gulland, editors, CRC Handbook of Marine Mammal Medicine: Health, Disease, and Rehabilitation, 2nd edition, Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, →ISBN, page 972:

Snakes and beaded lizards can be measured effectively in a "squeeze box" (Quinn and Jones 1974). A squeeze box immobilizes an animal by pressing it between a transparent lid and a soft foam bottom. Squeeze boxes have diverse designs[…], but basically, they are all modifications of the original described by Quinn and Jones (1974).

2012, Mercedes S. Foster, “Dealing with Live Reptiles”, in Roy W. McDiarmid et al., editors, Reptile Biodiversity: Standard Methods for Inventory and Monitoring, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 132:

Physical restraint devices (e.g., rabbit squeezeboxes and cat bags) are a useful adjunct to anesthesia, particularly in the induction period. Restrained rabbits quickly develop hyperthermia, however, especially when environmental temperatures are high. Physical restraint of free-living rabbits and hares should be minimal.

2014, Darryl Heard, “Lagomorphs (Rabbits, Hares, and Pikas)”, in Gary [Don] West, Darryl [J.] Heard, Nigel Caulkett, editors, Zoo Animal and Wildlife Immobilization and Anesthesia, 2nd edition, Ames, Iowa: Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 879:

(veterinary medicine) A container that fits tightly around an animal to immobilize it for medical treatment, transportation, etc.


microtainer

At every time point, a 500-μL sample of whole blood was taken from each participant in to a microtainer coated with K 2 EDTA (Becton Dickinson ref: 365974).

2015 September 18, “The Impact of Sleep Restriction and Simulated Physical Firefighting Work on Acute Inflammatory Stress Responses”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

A very small container for biological material.


stamnos

Borrowed from Ancient Greek στάμνος (stámnos).

(historical) An Ancient Greek pottery container used to store liquids. It is more squat than an amphora, and has handles.


clothesbasket

A basket for holding clothes to be laundered.

ciseán éadaigh

a basket for holding clothes to be laundered


pelican pot

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An enamelware kettle with a distinctive pouring spout for brewing hand-drip coffee.


askos

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀσκός (askós, “tube”): a modern name for this kind of vessel. Doublet of ascus.

lbor

(historical) An Ancient Greek pottery vessel used to pour small quantities of liquids such as oil.


haybox

It takes a lot longer to boil eggs in a haybox than on a stove.

A chest insulated with a layer of hay or another insulant, formerly used to keep food hot.


larnax

Borrowed from Ancient Greek λάρναξ (lárnax).

In a chamber tomb at Milatos, Mr. Evans discovered in 1899 a painted larnax or sarcophagus, on which there is figured a great Mycenæan body shield.

1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 101:

The borders found on the sarcophagus also occur in similar positions on the terracotta larnakes.

1973, Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, volumes 37-41, page 24:

Burial in larnaxes was first practiced in Crete in the Early Minoan period (EM) and its popularity grew in the Middle Minoan period (MM).

1992, Rivka Gonen, Burial Patterns and Cultural Diversity in Late Bronze Age Canaan:

Black painted band on the upper surface of the larnax rim, extended below the rim, both inside and outside.

2005, Yiannis Papadatos, Tholos Tomb Gamma: A Prepalatial Tholos Tomb at Phouni, Archanes:

(archaeology, historical) A small closed coffin, box or cinerary urn often used as a container for human remains in Ancient Greece.


puzzle box

A box that cannot be opened by the usual obvious means, and therefore challenges a person to find the correct way to open it.

秘密盒

a box that cannot be opened by the usual obvious means, and therefore challenges a person to find the correct way to open it


uniform case

He dragged his tin uniform case from under the bed and took out five ten-rupee notes.

1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 13”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:

In the hall lay an officer's uniform-case, brand new, the price ticket still attached.

1940, Roger Martin du Gard, translated by Stuart Gilbert, Summer, 1914, London: John Lane the Bodley Head, Part II, Chapter 45, p. 624:

A metal case used to store and transport a military uniform.


milkbox

(historical) A box kept outside a house to store newly delivered milk and empty bottles to be returned to the dairy.


botijo

Borrowed from Spanish botijo, from Spanish botija, from Vulgar Latin *buticula (or from Late Latin butticula, with attestation difficult to locate), from Vulgar Latin buttis (or LL.).

A traditional Spanish porous clay vessel designed to hold water and to cool it by evaporation.


rain barrel

rain barrels (plural)
rainbarrel (alternative)
rain-barrel (alternative)

(Canada, US) A barrel used to collect and store rainwater runoff, typically from rooftops via gutters.


pan-yard

Called up at three o'clock, and was a-horseback by four; and as I was eating my breakfast I saw a man riding by that rode a little way upon the road with me last night; and he being going with venison in his pan-yards to London, I called him in and did give him his breakfast with me, and so we went together all the way.

1661 August 7, Samuel Pepys, Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, volume 2, Dodd, Mead & Company, published 1885, pages 90–91:

(obsolete) Alternative form of panyard (“pannier; bag or basket”).


burden basket

A cedar-root burden basket of her own weaving was slung across the woman's back, steadied by a woven pack strap worn across the chest. Women of some tribes wore the strap across their foreheads, pushing their heads forward against the burden's weight.

1942, Emily Carr, “East and West”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:

2007, Dennis Slifer, Kokopelli: The Magic, Mirth, and Mischief of an Ancient Symbol, Gibbs Smith, Chapter 3, p. 109,
[…] the hump on some figures' backs may sometimes represent a burden basket, which was employed throughout northern Mexico, and at Hopi was used along with a supporting forehead strap.

A basket fitted with a strap or straps to allow it to be carried on the back with the carrier's arms free.


carrying basket

en-noun

carrying basket (plural carrying baskets)

Very little babies are kept in a carrying-basket, a closely woven, rough-plaited basket, semi circular in profile, which the women wear suspended from their foreheads as the Arapesh women wear their net bags.

1935, Margaret Mead, “Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies”, in Richard Lansdown, editor, Strangers in the South Seas: The Idea of the Pacific in Western Thought, University of Hawaii Press, published 2006, page 315:

The man's carrying basket is often split at the back from top to bottom and loosely laced together with a twine, enabling the carrier to expand his load if desired.

2014, Chester U. Strait, chapter 3, in The Chin People, Xlibris, page 262:


puttony

Borrowed from Hungarian puttony. Doublet of butt (“cask”).

A measure of such an amount of dried grapes added to the ferment in making tokay wine and hence a measure of its sweetness


champagne bucket

champagne bucket (plural champagne buckets)

A bowl or bucket designed for holding ice cubes or crushed ice that is used to chill a bottle of champagne.


paper bin

wastepaper basket
wastepaper basket#English


coolchest

coolchests (plural)
cool-chest (alternative)

From cool + chest. Compare West Frisian kuolkast and Dutch koelkast (literally “cool-chest”), German Kühlschrank.

"Aw, not much, just some sody and buttermilk. Don't get up, I'll just get it myself." Edith followed the creaks in the floorboards back to the coolchest, slid the door, took down a quart box (on which the handsome browneyed indian maid knelt in a sunset of butter) and then took a free look in the mirror lining the back of that cool-chest.

1996, Confrontation, numbers 60-61, page 70:

Beside the tent mast stood a low couch and a table supporting a coolchest and bottles of drink.

2006, Vernor Vinge, The Tatja Grimm's World:

Finally he took me up some rickety steps into a men's dosshouse where cell-like rooms led off a passageway equipped with a washbasin and a coolchest of cans of Coke.

2006, Sheila Paine, The Afghan Amulet: Travels from the Hindu Kush:

In both vehicles, we carried cool-chests containing food and drinks plus extra water and camping gear.

2011, Rod Koch, When The Green Flag Drops: Memoirs Of A Baja And Pro-Rally Racer:

A chest or compartment for keeping food cold; refrigerator


granny's fanny

granny's fanny (plural granny's fannies)

(US, informal) A kind of basket with two lobes, used for safely carrying eggs etc.


yogibogeybox

Compound of yogi + bogey + box. Coined by Irish novelist and poet James Joyce in his 1922 novel Ulysses.

coinage

Yeats, like AE, though not so fatuously, stood for the whirlpool, Madame Blavatsky and the yogibogeybox.

1968, John Anthony Burgess Wilson, Urgent Copy, page 63:

For him the yogibogeybox could offer nothing so good as the vegetable world.

1972, Richard Ellmann Goldsmith, Ulysses on the Liffey, →ISBN, page 16:

"They are saying" — it was Prof. Fewstone, of course, sidling up to Miss Thisbite with his overfilled shirt and yogibogeybox-shaped head, the strange hairdressing of which gave him a big roach in front and a curled effect at the rear which he tucked under in a roll.

1981, Alexander Theroux, Darconville's cat, page 199:

There is a period during which the children hear their mother denouncing "that woman" through closed doors, but the rival turns out to be only Mary Baker Eddy, in whose Boston yogibogeybox Walter had at last found a spiritual home.

1990, Benjamin Lawrence Reid, Necessary lives: biographical reflections, page 109:

Ellmann reports a more elaborate and nastier prank that Joyce and Gogarty actually perpetrated in the 'yogibogeybox' rooms of the Hermetic Society on Dawson Street, and he attributes to this prank the historical A.E.'s refusal to include Joyce in his 1904 collection titled New Songs, a Lyric Selection; Made by AE from Poems by Padraic Colum, Eva Gore-Booth, thomas Koehler, Alice Milligan, Susant Mitchell, Seamus O'Sullivan, George Roberts, and Ella Young (Gifford 212).

2011, M. Norris, Virgin and Veteran Readings of Ulysses, →ISBN:

In a word, the 1898 Literary Ideals in Ireland discussion of French Symbolism exposed Yeats's Magic in Ireland, where it was as suspect as Russell's yogibogeybox Mysticism was harmless.

2012, Fran Brearton, Alan Gillis, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry, →ISBN, page 30:

A container for a spiritualist’s accessories.


gurry-butt

gurry-butts (plural)
gurry-but (alternative)

"'Wouldn't hev your conscience fer a thousand quintal," said Dan. "Turn in, Penn. You've no call to do boy's work. Draw a bucket, Harvey. Oh, Penn, dump these in the gurry-butt 'fore you sleep. Kin you keep awake that long?"¶ Penn took up the heavy basket of fish-livers, emptied them into a cask with a hinged top lashed by the foc'sle; then he too dropped out of sight in the cabin.

1897, Rudyard Kipling, chapter 2, in Captains Courageous:

(obsolete) A large cask used for holding fish offal.


eolopile

A metal sphere, containing water, and having two opposing jets, that rotates when the water is boiled


rantang

(Indonesia) A kind of lunchbox or food container.


pencil holder

A small opened container for stationery such as pencils, ballpoint pens, rubber, correction fluid, etc.

portallapis

a small opened container for stationery such as pencils


tickler file

A collection of folders in which documents are filed according to the future date on which each will need action.


McCartney bottle

en-noun

McCartney bottle (plural McCartney bottles)

A container used in microbiology; a more or less cylindrical bottle with a cap.


cubitainer

Blend of cubical + container or similar, 1950s marketing coinage by its inventor, Hedwin Corporation, Maryland.

Cubitainer holds liquids, powders, grains & anything else that pours. Stacks compactly and stores more economically than other containers.

1968, Modern Packaging, volume 41, Morgan-Grampian, page 70:

A semirigid cubical plastic container, typically used within a cardboard box.


keep cup

keep cups (plural)
keep-cup (alternative)
keepcup (alternative)

A reusable coffee cup used to get coffee from a cafe and thus avoid using single-use disposable cups.


apple box

apple-box (canonical)
apple boxes (plural)
apple-box (alternative)
applebox (alternative)

Presumably originally used to transport apples.

The standard size of an apple box shall be eighteen inches long, eleven and one-half inches wide, ten and one-half inches deep, inside measurement.

1913, Fruit Products Congress, The Apple Annual, page 67:

Beside the bed is an apple box standing on end, on top of the box a candle planted in the neck of a wax-coated wine bottle.

1998, Edward Abbey, The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel:

You would then nail an old wooden apple box, which we always had plenty of, on top of the board leaving a space behind for your foot to ride.

2010, James D. Heintz, Apple Box Boy: Slices of Life, page 34:

(US) A wooden box measuring 12 × 20 × 8 inches.


air reservoir

Batteries, weak-field resistors and air reservoirs are slung under the main frame between the bogies.

1960 July, “The first G.E.C. 25 kV. a.c. electric locomotives for B.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 419:

A container, such as a pressurised tank, for holding compressed air.


spitting box

In the midst of this congregation stood a chafing-dish with live-coals, for the convenience of lighting their pipes, and every individual was accommodated with a spitting-box.

1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:


roll container

A cage on wheels used to hold and transport goods, especially in a warehouse.


cardel

A hogshead (large barrel) once used by whalers


burn barrel

A large metal container in which waste materials are disposed of by burning.


biscuit tin

biscuit tins (plural)
biscuit-tin (alternative)

She rang under my feet like an empty Huntley and Palmer biscuit-tin kicked along a gutter; she was nothing so solid in make, and rather less pretty in shape, but I had expended enough hard work on her to make me love her.

1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 218:

(UK) A medium-sized metal container with removable lid used to store biscuits and keep them fresh.


hog-tub

hog-tubs (plural)
hogtub (alternative)
hog tub (alternative)

A trough or vat from which pigs or other domestic animals drink; and also a place where slaughtered pigs are soaked in boiling water so that their bristles can be scraped off, sometimes also filled with refuse or used for an other purpose.


wheelbox

(nautical) A box beneath a ship's wheel containing the steering gear.


ghurra

(India) A spheroidal clay pot for holding water.


martaban

martabans (plural)
martavan (alternative)

(historical) A large glazed pottery vessel of a kind exported from Martaban, used to hold water, rice, fish, etc.


paper bank

A large container into which paper and related materials such as card are placed for recycling.


tea ball

tea balls (plural)
teaball (alternative)

When using a tea ball, fill it to one-half full with tea leaves, leaving enough room in it for the leaves to expand.

1995, Campbell Dawn, The Tea Book, Pelican Publishing, →ISBN, page 84:

A perforated spherical metal container that holds tea leaves for steeping or brewing in hot water.


feedbin

A bin for holding material to be fed into an industrial process.


dumpie

(South Africa) Alternative form of dumpy (“small bottle of beer”).


kothon

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κώθων (kṓthōn).

learned borrowing

An Ancient Greek cosmetic container with folded-over rim.


nailkeg

nailkegs (plural)
nail-keg (alternative)
nail keg (alternative)


dosirak

dosirak (plural)
dosiraks (plural)
doshirak (alternative)
tosirak (alternative)
toshirak (alternative)

A Korean-style packed lunch, usually consisting of rice and several banchan (small side dishes).