Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In telegraphy, a box containing terminals to which telegraph-wires are connected for convenience of testing.
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Examples
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Earlier on I had noted marked on a Corps signalling-map a test-box between the quarry and the canal and another one along the railway embankment, not far from the retiring positions assigned to the batteries.
Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols
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I stood outside the test-box that had become a sort of Brigade H.Q. and listened to the waspish crack of our 18-pdrs. sending defiance to the enemy.
Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols
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The six signallers -- plus a terrier -- had crowded into the tiny sandbag shelter that protected the test-box.
Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols
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For my second test-box, I used a late beta of the outstanding Debian-based
doggdot.us 2008
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10.30 P.M.: I had reeled out my lines alongside the railway from the test-box to D Battery and to C and A, who, because of the nine guns the brigade had lost in the morning, had become a composite battery.
Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols
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