单词 | mess box |
释义 | > as lemmasmess box mess box n. U.S. a box in which food and kitchen utensils are carried. ΚΠ 1811 Z. M. Pike Exploratory Trav. 93 I had saved all our corn, bacon, and the meat of six deer, and left them at Sandy lake, with some tents, my mess-boxes, salt, tobacco, &c. 1885 Overland Monthly Apr.–May 389/2 The dishes put away in the mess box on the back end of the wagon, a timid kind of foraging tour is made. 1921 in N. H. Thorp Songs of Cowboys (ed. 2) 24 The way we gathered round that mess-box, scramblin' for tools, Showed the disregard for ethics that is taught in other schools. 2010 C. Fisher Food in Amer. Mil. vii. 134 Devising mess-boxes for messmen to use in carrying food related items to the tables and back to the storage room. < as lemmas |
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