Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A squaro chest or box, filled with earth, used for making parapets for batteries where gabions or sand-bags are not to be had.
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Examples
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When I returned, Maggie was digging under the telephone battery-box with a hair-pin and muttering to herself.
The Confession Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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And, indeed, by that time Maggie had convinced herself that she had known all along there was something in the telephone battery-box.
The Confession Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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