0 past simple and past participle of crate --
1 to put something into a crate, especially in order to move it --
Do you crate her at night?
Cavendish bananas, for example, bruise easily and must be picked at an earlier stage and crated in the fields for transport.
As there is no one there to meet them, they spend the night alone on the beach amongst their crated belongings.
This ended his career in shame, and he was crated and put into storage.
The aircraft were crated up and transported by sea.
Other crated aircraft were to be used as spares.
Agents and crated supplies were dropped by parachute through the opening left by removal of the belly turret.
There is no reference to the imaginary sport of crated stag hunting anywhere in literature or mythology.
That is an important factor, otherwise we shall face similar problems as we now do with crated veal.
