window box

noun — 2 senses

window box

noun
1

A narrow box filled with earth, placed on a windowsill and used for growing plants.

  • As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants.2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2020:
2

One of the hollows in the sides of a window frame for the weights which counterbalance a lifting sash.

Synonyms
flower box, herb box, planter

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