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dog box

n
1. (Railways) informal Austral a compartment in a railway carriage with no corridor
2. informal NZ disgrace; disfavour (in the phrase in the dog box)
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Guide Andy Savages lead dog, a grizzled Plott hound named Granite, started the track and once Granite had the trail lined-out, Andy opened the doors of the dog box so the young hounds could join in the chase.
The car had three child car seats plus dog training gear, purpose-built dog box, and other stuff.
By the time we had Rosey's two hounds out of the dog box and our packs on our shoulders, the canyon was reverberating with the staccato chop of dogs at the tree.
"We had a dog box in the bathroom and he was lying on the dog box my daddy was lying on his back on the dog box.
Riley, owner of a three-year old Labrador, said: "This was the third party for my dog Box this year and it was arguably the best."
Each morning the MWDs were picked up from the kennels and loaded onto a trailer where each dog was housed in an individual compartment ("dog box") for transport to the site where training was conducted.
The new Dog Box from Snap-on Industrial is a rolling tool box that makes moving tools across a maintenance garage breeze.
A North London Railway luggage/guard's brake van, built in 1872, features design quirks of the time--a dog box with two small ventilated doors, and a flap that housed a gas container which fuelled the carriage lighting.
Kommissar Brown's disgraceful central city dog box apartments are just as unaffordable as any housing anywhere in Auckland and there is not a chance that the young people commuting up to 160 kms from where they can afford anything, will move into this "housing" at these locations that Kommissar Brown thinks to be the ideal for them.
And take your giant popcorn receptacle, greasy hot dog box and empty Ben & Jerry's tub with you.
If your pet is being carried in a brake van (dog box) the charge is equivalent to 30 kg luggage.