Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A reservoir tor steam above a boiler; a steam-chest.
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Examples
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Once you get your boxed-up chicken, give it 5-7 mins before you eat and you'll find that you've basically caused a mini steam-box that allows the chicken to rest and 'sweat'.
Archive 2009-10-01 e d b m 2009
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Once you get your boxed-up chicken, give it 5-7 mins before you eat and you'll find that you've basically caused a mini steam-box that allows the chicken to rest and 'sweat'.
Los Angeles Roadside Chicken - Delicious Pollution from Oil-Barrel BBQ Grills e d b m 2009
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-- 'I say, Fred, bear a hand, and get up a fire as quick as lightning under that steam-box.'
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My work now was to keep fire under the steam-box, and to watch the ship-yard while the carpenters had gone to dinner.
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What a body has to do is to learn what pinion or steam-box, or piston, or muckle water-wheel he represents, and stick to that, defyin 'the deevil, whase wark is to put the machine out o' gear.
Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864
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-- "I say, Fred., bear a hand, and get up a fire as quick as lightning under that steam-box."
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1856
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-- 'I say, Fred., bear a hand, and get up a fire as quick as lightning under that steam-box.'
My Bondage and My Freedom. By Frederick Douglass. With and Introduction. By James M`Cune Smith. 1855
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-- 'I say, Fred., bear a hand, and get up a fire as quick as lighting under that steam-box.'
My Bondage and My Freedom. Part I.--Life as a Slave. Part II.--Life as a Freeman 1850
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-- "I say, Fred., bear a hand, and get up a fire as quick as lightning under that steam-box."
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave 1845
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Cut a piece of elm, five feet and a half long, large enough to split into quarters, each of which will dress to two inches in diameter; put them in a steam-box for an hour at least; take them out hot, and bend on a mould made on purpose; tie the two bent-up ends together until dry.
Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West The Experience of an Early Settler (Volume I) Samuel Strickland 1835
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