cheesebox

A revolving armored turret encasing twin Dahlgren guns and a pilot house were the only structures on the vessel visible above water, prompting critics to describe the ship as a "cheesebox on a raft," and a "tin can on a shingle."

Steam Machines 1998

It is a large round whitewashed structure having the appearance of a huge cheesebox; its walls are of enormous thickness and it is now used as a jail.

Santo Domingo A Country with a Future Otto Schoenrich

The captain expected an easy victory, but to his surprise he found this queer little cheesebox between him and his victims.

This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States Henrietta Elizabeth 1917

It looked, said those who saw it, more like a cheesebox on a raft than anything else.

This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States Henrietta Elizabeth 1917

Old marlin-spike seamen pooh-poohed this "cheesebox on a raft."

A History of Sea Power William Oliver Stevens 1916

"Maybe you think she'll ride in our old homemade, hickory cheesebox, when she can sail all over the country like a bird in a velvet-lined cutter with a real buffalo robe."

Laddie: A True Blue Story 1913

Contemptuous eyewitnesses described her very well as looking like a tin can on a shingle or a cheesebox on a raft.

Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray William Charles Henry Wood 1905

She was compared to a "cheesebox on a raft"; she was named the _Monitor_, and was the parent of a type of vessel so called which has been heard of much more recently.

Abraham Lincoln Godfrey Rathbone Benson Charnwood 1904

"Maybe you think she'll ride in our old homemade, hickory cheesebox, when she can sail all over the country like a bird in a velvet-lined cutter with a real buffalo robe."

Laddie; a true blue story Gene Stratton-Porter 1893

She looked, it was said, like "a cheesebox mounted on a raft."

A School History of the United States John Bach McMaster 1892