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car⋅ton

[kahr-tn]
–noun
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.
–verb (used with object)
5. to pack in a carton: to carton eggs for supermarket sales.
–verb (used without object)
6. to make or form cardboard sheets into cartons.

Origin:
1780–90; < F < It cartone pasteboard; see cartoon
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car·ton   (kär'tn)   
n.  
  1. Any of various containers made from cardboard or coated paper: cans packed in cartons; a milk carton.

  2. The contents of a carton: dyed the whole carton of eggs.

tr.v.   car·toned, car·ton·ing, car·tons
To place (something) in a carton.

[French, from Italian cartone, pasteboard, augmentative of carta, card, paper, from Latin charta, carta, paper made from papyrus; see card1.]
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Word Origin & History

carton 
1816, from Fr. carton "pasteboard," from It. cartone "pasteboard," augmentive of M.L. carta "paper" (see card (n.)). Originally the material for making paper boxes; extended 1906 to the boxes themselves.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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