"apple-box" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "apple-boxes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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      "expansion": "apple-box (plural apple-boxes)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "apple box"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1910, British Columbia Fruit-Growers' Association, Annual Report - Issues 20-27, page 56",
          "text": "They look better and ship better in the half apple-box.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1985, Lora Wood Hughes, No Time for Tears, page 132",
          "text": "An old cook stove, a few cracked dishes, an apple-box cupboard on the wall, two cots and mattresses, a table, and a couple of chairs.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Stephen King, Joyland",
          "text": "I'd seen it all fifty times or more (and sometimes wondered how many butts were piled up beneath that box), but this time, instead of lifting the apple-box, he just went right on leaning.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of apple box"
      ],
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  "word": "apple-box"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "apple-boxes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "apple-box (plural apple-boxes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "apple box"
        }
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        "English countable nouns",
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        "English terms with quotations"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1910, British Columbia Fruit-Growers' Association, Annual Report - Issues 20-27, page 56",
          "text": "They look better and ship better in the half apple-box.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1985, Lora Wood Hughes, No Time for Tears, page 132",
          "text": "An old cook stove, a few cracked dishes, an apple-box cupboard on the wall, two cots and mattresses, a table, and a couple of chairs.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Stephen King, Joyland",
          "text": "I'd seen it all fifty times or more (and sometimes wondered how many butts were piled up beneath that box), but this time, instead of lifting the apple-box, he just went right on leaning.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of apple box"
      ],
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  "word": "apple-box"
}