Hypertext Webster Gateway: "empties"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Empty \Emp"ty\, n.; pl. {Empties}.
An empty box, crate, cask, etc.; -- used in commerce, esp. in
transportation of freight; as, ``special rates for empties.''
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