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A cubby-hole, cubby-house or cubby is a small play house, or play area, for children. [2] This may be constructed by the children themselves and used as a place of play. [3] Children may have a small shed, play-house or tent which they use as a cubby-house. [4] Children might build their own in various places in the house or garden, or have a ...
Glove compartment. A glove compartment or glove box is a compartment built into the dashboard of an automobile, located over the front-seat passenger's footwell, and often used for miscellaneous storage. The name derives from the original purpose of the compartment, to store driving gloves. They were sometimes in a box on the floorboard near ...
A modern parking undercroft beneath a cinema. An undercroft is traditionally a cellar or storage room, [1] often brick-lined and vaulted, and used for storage in buildings since medieval times. In modern usage, an undercroft is generally a ground (street-level) area which is relatively open to the sides, but covered by the building above. [2]
A priest hole is a hiding place for a priest built in England or Wales during the period when Catholics were persecuted by law. Following the accession of Queen Elizabeth I to the throne in 1558, there were several Catholic plots designed to remove her, [1] and severe measures, including torture and execution, were taken against Catholic ...
Cubby, a Logmein public and private cloud storage system; Cubby the Bear, mascot of the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Japanese baseball team; Cubby, mascot of the Daytona Tortugas minor league baseball team; Cubby-hole is a small play house for children.
A pigeon-hole messagebox (commonly referred to as a pigeon-hole or pidge, a cubbyhole (often shortened to "cubby") or simply as a mailbox in some academic or office settings) is an internal mail system commonly used for communication in organisations, workplaces and educational institutes in the United Kingdom and other countries.
Capsules in Tokyo Capsule hotel in Warsaw, Poland.The lockers are on the left of the image, while the sleeping capsules are on the right. A capsule hotel (Japanese: カプセルホテル, romanized: kapuseru hoteru), also known in the Western world as a pod hotel, [1] is a type of hotel developed in Japan that features many small, bed-sized rooms known as capsules.
A Wendy house, in the United Kingdom, is a children 's playhouse that is large enough for one or more children to enter. Size and solidity can vary from a plastic kit to something resembling a real house in a child's size. Usually there is one room, a doorway with a window on each side, and little or no furniture other than what the children ...