verb
- packed or enclosed in a crate
Usage: past tense and past participle of ‘crate’
Examples
- The antique furniture was carefully crated for shipping overseas.
- We crated the fragile artwork before moving to the new gallery.
- The machinery arrived already crated and ready for installation.
- They crated the live animals for transport to the zoo.
- The wine bottles were individually wrapped and then crated.
- Workers crated the archaeological artifacts for museum storage.