Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In a figure-weaving loom, a box for holding a number of shuttles, each carrying its own color, and so arranged that any one of the shuttles can be brought into action as required by the pattern.
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Examples
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Just tried out SpiderOak and dropbox on Jaunty and prefer the former since you can set pre-existing folders to be synced, rather than having to drop things into a created drop-box folder.
Ubuntu One’s Online Storage Looks An Awful Lot Like Dropbox | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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That had been hours ago, though, and the lost and found drop-box wouldn't be open until Tuesday ... provided someone didn't just run off with it.
Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2009
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I'm currently working on my second story, which doesn't have a title, but involves a character named Susan and a library drop-box.
Odyssey: Week #1 2009
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Just tried out SpiderOak and dropbox on Jaunty and prefer the former since you can set pre-existing folders to be synced, rather than having to drop things into a created drop-box folder.
Ubuntu One’s Online Storage Looks An Awful Lot Like Dropbox | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Willy Ley wrote an article in his book "Another Look at Atlantis" in which a preserved pangolin was put on display at a university, perhaps in the zoology department, with a sign saying, What is this? and with a drop-box wherein people could put in their answers.
What's in a name? frankwu 2007
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I'm currently working on my second story, which doesn't have a title, but involves a character named Susan and a library drop-box.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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The Waste Management people arrived early this morning bearing the drop-box.
Cleaning Frenzy in Progress Steve Perry 2007
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After he was gone, I absent-mindedly mailed my own eye glasses in that same drop-box, and then yelled bloody murder, till the postman came along and opened the box for me.
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So, the bench and its dead-drop would be checked out regularly, and in that surveillance van would be a key custom-made to fit the lock on the drop-box, and a photocopier to make a duplicate of the message inside.
The Bear and the Dragon Clancy, Tom, 1947- 2000
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They had a pile of cargo pads stolen from a moving van for bedding, all spread neatly on top of it, plus the blankets and sheets Laura had taken out of the Goodwill drop-box, all different sizes, none matching.
Omnibus Lackey, Mercedes 1993
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