Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That part of a cotton-baling press in which the, lint (ginned cotton) is packed.
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Examples
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The lint-box of the old cotton-press was covered with wet morning-glories.
The Cavalier George Washington Cable 1884
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Lord! why didn't I think of it in time? we'd ought to 'a' just dropped him alive into that lint-box and turned the press down onto him with our horses! "
The Cavalier George Washington Cable 1884
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