cheesebox
cheesebox Lexical Profile
• noun
A cylindrical wooden container or box traditionally used for pressing, packing, storing, or transporting cheese.
"The farmer carefully packed the aged cheddar into a custom-made pine cheesebox before bringing it to the market."
American An early type of heavily armored ironclad warship featuring a very low freeboard and a prominent rotating cylindrical turret, famously associated with the USS Monitor.
"Historical accounts frequently recount the moment Confederate troops first spotted the strange iron cheesebox floating on the water at the Battle of Hampton Roads."
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Word Origin & Etymology
A compound of 'cheese' and 'box', originally referring to the cylindrical wooden containers used for cheese. It gained historical fame in 1862 during the American Civil War when the Union ironclad USS Monitor was derisively described as a 'cheesebox on a raft'.