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Nov 30, 2009
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car•ton



Pronunciation: (kär'tn), [key]
—n.
1. a cardboard or plastic box used typically for storage or shipping.
2. the amount a carton can hold.
3. the contents of a carton.
4. a cardboardlike substance consisting of chewed plant material often mixed with soil, made by certain insects for building nests.

—v.t.
to pack in a carton: to carton eggs for supermarket sales.

—v.i.
to make or form cardboard sheets into cartons.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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