strong-box
A strongly made chest or safe for money, documents, or other valuables.
| 1684 Lond. Gaz. No. 1969/4 Lost out of the Dutchess of Portsmouth's Lodgings..a little strong Box with several things in it. 1712 Arbuthnot John Bull ii. iv. 16 She would rob her Father's strong Box, for Money to give the young Fellows that she was fond of. 1741 Richardson Pamela (ed. 3) I. 196, I ask'd her for my Money; and she said it was above in her strong Box. 1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles xi. 105 Safe as his parchments in his strong-box. 1871 Longfellow Wayside Inn ii. Student's T., Cobbler of Hagenau 108 A heavy strong-box..Received, with a melodious sound, The coin that purchased Paradise. |
| fig. 1856 Emerson Eng. Traits xi. Aristocr. Wks. (Bohn) II. 83 These are they who make England that strongbox and museum it is. |