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A box that brags about being honest while hiding everything you actually want inside.
means A sturdy open-slatted wooden or plastic box built for shipping, storing, or hauling goods.
from From Latin 'cratis,' meaning wickerwork or a hurdle of interwoven branches — the same root that gives us 'grate' and possibly 'griddle,' all sharing that crisscross, latticed sense. The earliest crates really were woven frames, so the slats in a modern crate are the ghost of that ancient basketry.
- origin
- From Latin cratis, meaning wickerwork or lattice.
- shipping empire
- Crates carried global trade before pallets and containers existed.
- dog psychology
- Crate training mimics a den's natural security instinct.
- crate digging
- DJs hunt rare vinyl in dusty record crates.
- milk crates
- Stealing them is illegal in several U.S. states.
wooden apple crate — standardized shipping container used by us fruit farmers since 1800s, holds ~50 lbs of apples
dog crate — wire or plastic pet enclosure, common training tool in modern dog ownership since 1980s
vinyl record crate — cardboard storage container for lps, iconic among djs and collectors for organizing hundreds of records