crate
Plural: crates
Noun
- a rugged box (usually made of wood); used for shipping
- the quantity contained in a crate
- A large open box or basket, used especially to transport fragile goods.
- A vehicle (car, aircraft, spacecraft, etc.) seen as unreliable.
- In the Rust programming language, a binary or library.
Verb
Verb Forms: crated, crating, crates
- To pack into a large wooden box for transport.
- put into a crate; as for protection
- "crate the paintings before shipping them to the museum"
- To put into a crate.
- To keep in a crate.
Examples
- After that devastating play, you might as well crate up your tiles.
Origin / Etymology
From Dutch krat (“crate, large box, basket”), from Middle Dutch cratte (“basketware, mold”), from Old Dutch *kratta, *kratto (“basket”), from Proto-Germanic *kratjô, *krattijô (“basket”), from Proto-Indo-European *gretH- (“plaiting, wicker, basket, cradle”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to bind, twist, wind”).
Cognate with West Frisian kret (“wheelbarrow”), German Krätze (“basket”), Old English cræt, ceart (“cart, wagon, chariot”), Old Norse kartr (“wagon”), modern English cart. Wider cognates include Sanskrit ग्रन्थ (grantha, “a binding”).
Alternatively from Latin crātis (“wickerwork”), perhaps from the same PIE root.
Synonyms
crateful, banger, beater, bucket of bolts, bucket of rust, clunker, crate, crock, flivver, hooptie, jalopy, junker, lemon, old banger, packing case, rattletrap, rustbucket, shed, shitbox, shitbucket, shitcan, shitpot, tin Lizzie, wreck
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 7
crate: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordcrate: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
crate: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary