One lending boxes reserved for acrobat's equipment (8)
I believe the answer is:
unicycle
'acrobat's equipment' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'one lending boxes reserved' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'one' could be 'un' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'un' is found within the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
'for' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for unicycle that I've seen before include "equipment for acrobat" , "form of transport" , "One-wheeled conveyance" , "One-wheeled transport" , "One-wheeler" .)