apple crate

Fruit storage container

An apple crate is a wooden or plastic container designed to hold apples for storage and transport, typically slatted for ventilation.

The standard wooden apple crate became a symbol of improvised furniture and makeshift platforms—speakers at informal gatherings stood on them, giving rise to soapbox as a metaphor for public pronouncement: He got up on his apple crate and started lecturing us about recycling.

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Ungloved, unequipped extremities

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Top 200,000
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G