- a slatted wooden box or framework for packing, shopping, or storing fruit, furniture, glassware, crockery, etc.
- any completely enclosed boxlike packing or shipping case.
- something rickety and dilapidated, especially an automobile: They're still driving around in the old crate they bought 20 years ago.
- a quantity, especially of fruit, that is often packed in a crate approximately 2 × 1 × 1 foot (0.6 × 0.3 × 0.3 meters): a crate of oranges.
- to pack in a crate.
- a fairly large container, usually made of wooden slats or wickerwork, used for packing, storing, or transporting goods
- an old car, aeroplane, etc
- to pack or place in a crate
