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Meaning of Yankee cheese-box | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

The USS Monitor, USS Montauk and similar American Civil War-era ironclad ships.

US, dated, slang

Examples

“The old description of her departed predecessor, " a Yankee cheese-box on a raft," will give one a better idea of her external appearance than any chapter which could be written.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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