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Discover LudwigThe word "crate" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a container made of wood, metal, or plastic, typically closed with a lid or cover. For example, "I put the books in a wooden crate and shipped them to my friend."
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crate
noun
A large open box or basket, used especially to transport fragile goods.
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You know the sort of thing: What do you call a crate of ducks?
I've already been working for hours before I arrive at your house, having loaded my truck with the multiple orders of crates of beer and mineral water, over 20kg a crate.
The Westminster elite, who had assumed that the referendum would be easily won by the no side, started to stir when the shadow cabinet minister Jim Murphy suspended his 100 town Irn-Bru crate speaking tour at the end of August in the face of intimidation from yes supporters.
Dikko, who had fled to the UK after the coup, was found drugged in a crate at Stansted.
Rounding out the lineup is local stalwart Jon K, a man who knows his way around any crate that needs digging. 1 Primrose Street, Sat JT Elgato arrives in Cardiff for only the second time in his career to set the vibe for a special instalment of the city's most consistently on-the-button club night.
We saw that during the referendum when he was the street-fighting star of the no campaign with his gutsy "100 Towns in 100 Days" tour of public squares where he used an Irn-Bru crate as his soapbox and made himself a martyr to Nationalist egg-throwers.
Elsewhere, food-aid can be more dangerous; a large crate, dropped in the western city of Herat on Monday night, demolished the shrine of the city's most revered Sufi saint.
In the past two-and-half years, the "crate to plate" time for airline food at JFK has halved to 30 hours.The squeeze is even beginning to tell on the plate.
Schiaparelli herself describes leaving her newborn daughter, Maria Luisa (nicknamed Gogo) asleep in an orange crate "in the sunshine on the fire-escape", while she went out to find work.
A person or a crate can fly from London to New York in a few hours.
In one case a firm supplied poor communities in Russia with a crate of vodka and some food.
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