English Dictionary

Yankee cheese-box

noun

(slang, dated, US) The USS Monitor, USS Montauk and similar American Civil War-era ironclad ships.

I saw a Yankee cheese-box at the antique store.

意味（1）

(slang, dated, US) The USS Monitor, USS Montauk and similar American Civil War-era ironclad ships.

The old description of her departed predecessor, a Yankee cheese-box on a raft, will give one a better idea of her external appearance than any chapter which could be written.