"apple box" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Presumably originally used to transport apples.",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1913, Fruit Products Congress, The Apple Annual, page 67",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Edward Abbey, The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, James D. Heintz, Apple Box Boy: Slices of Life, page 34",
          "text": "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.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A wooden box measuring 12 × 20 × 8 inches."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "box"
        }
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          "inch",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US) A wooden box measuring 12 × 20 × 8 inches."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "apple-box"
        },
        {
          "word": "applebox"
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  "word": "apple box"
}

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  "etymology_text": "Presumably originally used to transport apples.",
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    {
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    },
    {
      "form": "apple boxes",
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      ]
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  ],
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  "hypernyms": [
    {
      "word": "box"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
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  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1913, Fruit Products Congress, The Apple Annual, page 67",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Edward Abbey, The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, James D. Heintz, Apple Box Boy: Slices of Life, page 34",
          "text": "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.",
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        }
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        "(US) A wooden box measuring 12 × 20 × 8 inches."
      ],
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "apple-box"
    },
    {
      "word": "applebox"
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  "word": "apple box"
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