cassette

[< F "a small chest"]

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a strong, light, waterproof box used among the fur traders for carrying personal effects.

Quotations

1791

You will observe I have ordered some trunk locks, they are for cassettes & I am not sure but the right name for them is cupboard locks. . . .

1821

Our Boxes and our Cassettes become our Chairs and Tables.

1963

Our worldly possessions just about filled a small easily portable cassette, an honestly made, by old country mechanics, receptacle. . . .