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  • noun Plural form of crackerbox.

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Examples

  • To make the best of the situation, we unloaded the baggage, distributing and adjusting the trunks, rolls of bedding, crackerboxes, and everything else that would stop a bullet, in such manner as to form a square barricade, two sides of which were the wagons, with the mules haltered to the wheels.

    She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

  • Of course, you don't know if it wouldn't have grown otherwise or whether it called it to everybody's attention and they had more growth than they would otherwise have had, but I see, essentially, trying to assure a better quality of development in such a way to where you simply don't permit a bunch of little crackerboxes all over the state.

    Oral History Interview with Reubin Askew, July 8, 1974. Interview A-0045. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1974

  • To make the best of the situation, we unloaded the baggage, distributing and adjusting the trunks, rolls of bedding, crackerboxes, and everything else that would stop a bullet, in such manner as to form a square barricade, two sides of which were the wagons, with the mules haltered to the wheels.

    Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

  • To make the best of the situation, we unloaded the baggage, distributing and adjusting the trunks, rolls of bedding, crackerboxes, and everything else that would stop a bullet, in such manner as to form a square barricade, two sides of which were the wagons, with the mules haltered to the wheels.

    Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Complete Philip Henry Sheridan 1859

  • To make the best of the situation, we unloaded the baggage, distributing and adjusting the trunks, rolls of bedding, crackerboxes, and everything else that would stop a bullet, in such manner as to form a square barricade, two sides of which were the wagons, with the mules haltered to the wheels.

    Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Volume 2 Philip Henry Sheridan 1859

  • To make the best of the situation, we unloaded the baggage, distributing and adjusting the trunks, rolls of bedding, crackerboxes, and everything else that would stop a bullet, in such manner as to form a square barricade, two sides of which were the wagons, with the mules haltered to the wheels.

    The Memoirs of General Philip H. Sheridan, Volume II., Part 6 Philip Henry Sheridan 1859

  • "suitable" two-story home on Revolutionary Road, blocks away from the cinderblock crackerboxes owned by carpenters and tradesmen.

    Epinions Recent Content for Home 2010

  • Housing only stays affordable if there remains a supply of houses - artifically less land equals fewer houses built equals half million dollar crackerboxes. "

    unknown title 2009

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