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car·ton    (kärtn) KEY  

NOUN:

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.

TRANSITIVE VERB:
car·toned , car·ton·ing , car·tons

To place (something) in a carton.

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ETYMOLOGY:
French, from Italian cartone, pasteboard, augmentative of carta, card, paper, from Latin charta, carta, paper made from papyrus ; see card ¹

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