DCHP-1 Online
cassette [< F "a small chest"] Hist. 
n. a strong, light, waterproof box used among the fur traders for carrying personal effects.
See also: travelling box
- 1791 (1947) You will observe I have ordered some trunk locks, they are for cassettes & I am not sure but the right name for them is cupboard locks. . . .
- 1821 (1900) Our Boxes and our Cassettes become our Chairs and Tables.
- 1963 Our worldly possessions just about filled a small easily portable cassette, an honestly made, by old country mechanics, receptacle. . . .
- 1791 (1947) You will observe I have ordered some trunk locks, they are for cassettes & I am not sure but the right name for them is cupboard locks. . . .