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Box

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A rigid lidded container for keep and carry. Not Pandora’s box as the myth alone, and not chest as the larger trunk.

  • Box is historically related to Wood.

    Ure’s Dictionary of Arts seats wooden boxes among ordinary joinery and packing stock. A named box beside wood, not Pandora’s box as myth alone and not chest as the larger trunk.

    from Andrew Ure · Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, 1839 (and later PD editions)

    historically related to · sourced · documented

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