WORKBOX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does workbox mean? 

• WORKBOX (noun)
  The noun WORKBOX has 1 sense:

1. container for holding implements and materials for work (especially for sewing)

  Familiarity information: WORKBOX used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WORKBOX (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Container for holding implements and materials for work (especially for sewing)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

workbag; workbasket; workbox

Hypernyms ("workbox" is a kind of...):

container (any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "workbox"):

sewing basket (a workbasket in which sewing materials can be stored)

 Context examples 

No, never: we might do what we pleased; ransack her desk and her workbox, and turn her drawers inside out; and she was so good-natured, she would give us anything we asked for.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)