<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a slatted wooden box or framework for packing, shopping, or storing fruit, furniture, glassware, crockery, etc.</li><li>any completely enclosed boxlike packing or shipping case.</li><li>Informal: something rickety and dilapidated, especially an automobile: They're still driving around in the old crate they bought 20 years ago.</li><li>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.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>to pack in a crate.</li></ul>