ˈseed-box
1. The receptacle for the seed in a grain-drill or seed-sowing-machine.
| 1733 Tull Horse-Hoeing Husb. xxii. 315 Of these [parts of the Drill] the Seed-Box is the chief; it measures (or rather numbers) out the Seed which it receives from the Hopper. 1831 Loudon Encycl. Agric. (1857) §2679 The seed-box being elevated or depressed accordingly, so as to render the distribution of the seed regular. 1875 Encycl. Brit. I. 320/1 [In the machine for broadcast sowing] motion is communicated to a spindle which revolves in the seed-box, and expels the seed by means of cogs or brushes. |
2. U.S. A plant of the genus Ludwigia, so called from its cubical pod.
| 1821 Barton Flora N. Amer. I. 49 Ludwigia macrocarpa. Large-capsuled Seed-box, or Ludwigia. 1856 Gray Man. Bot. (1860) 33 Ludwigia alternifolia. (Seed-box.) |