cheese-box

Sounded like a typical analog cheese-box - in other words, great.

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What space and elbow-room can be found for quarter-deck dignity in the cramped lookout of the Monitor, or even in the twenty-feet diameter of her cheese-box?

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 Various

Not being able to damage the stranger with their British cannon, the rebel tried the effect of its powerful ram; but the "cheese-box" divining its intentions, nimbly got out of harm's way.

Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886 Various

It might have been described as a soap-box with a cheese-box on top of it; and these homely and familiar articles were perhaps not altogether out of keeping with the character of the humblest great man who ever lived.

The Metropolis Upton Sinclair 1923

The form of the Monitor is too well known to need description -- "a cheese-box on a raft," the name given her in derision, describes her as well as anything.

American Men of Action Burton Egbert Stevenson 1917

Several years ago a friend took a cheese-box, filled it with sharp sand to the brim, supported it in a tub of water so that the lower half-inch of the box was immersed.

Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906

The only attention given the box was to keep the water high enough in the tub to touch the bottom of the cheese-box.

Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906

When the unwieldy rebel turtleback, with her slow, awkward movement, tried to ram the pointed raft that carried the cheese-box, the little vessel, obedient to her rudder, easily glided out of the line of direct impact.

A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln Nicolay, John G 1904

This was Ericsson's “cheese-box on a raft,” named by him the

A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln Nicolay, John G 1904

This unique naval structure was promptly nicknamed “a cheese-box on a raft,” and the designation was not at all inapt.

A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln Nicolay, John G 1904