Definitions for crates

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Spelling: [kreyt]

IPA: /kreɪt/

Crates is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 210 anagrams from letters in crates (acerst).

Definitions for crates

noun

1. a slatted wooden box or framework for packing, shopping, or storing fruit, furniture, glassware, crockery, etc.
2. any completely enclosed boxlike packing or shipping case.
3. Informal. something rickety and dilapidated, especially an automobile:
4. a quantity, especially of fruit, that is often packed in a crate approximately 2 × 1 × 1 foot (0.6 × 0.3 × 0.3 meters):

verb (used with object)

1. to pack in a crate.

Origin of crates

1350-1400; 1915-20 for def 3; Middle English, obscurely akin to Latin crātis wickerwork, hurdle

Examples for crates

When they had given up, I boomed orders at them through a speaker in the crate.

It was from the summit of a crate of holly-wreaths that she telephoned this time.

All my crate iteas will gome to me now for some dime in the night.

A crate of the stuff arrived at the studio, compliments of the Plaza Athénée.

If those consumers get their hands on some money, they'll move upmarket to crate and Barrel and Banana Republic.

I climbed into the crate—82 inches long, 26 inches wide, and 11.5 inches deep—in late October.

It does have a competitive following on Pinterest (comparable to Wal-Mart and crate & Barrel) which is important for retailers.

At first she had insisted he take the crate out to his workshop.

And he glanced at the crate that Westray was steadying with his hand on the opposite seat.

But I have news for House Republicans that may help them more than years of psychotherapy or a crate of Paxil: You may still win.