Meanings of convenient receptacle in English

A small two-handled bath is the most convenient receptacle for the waste water.

The envelopes may be of any size desired and kept in any convenient receptacle.

Now it seemed a convenient receptacle for the necklace, and I suddenly planned out my way of giving it to Raoul.

Under the most depending part of the slope they affix a shell, or some other convenient receptacle, into which the milky juice flows.

In a corner of the room stood her travelling-box, a convenient receptacle into which to put the new purchases as they arrived from the shops.

This speech he wrote on stray envelopes and scraps of paper, as ideas suggested themselves, putting them into that miscellaneous and convenient receptacle, his hat.

It could be used only in limited quantities, from the want of convenient receptacles for its retention.

They have obviously been used as convenient receptacles for the defendant's-shallwe say-chemicalsolutions.' He gave Harry Purvis an unsympathetic glance.