Boxer
['bɒksə] or ['bɑksɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a breed of stocky medium-sized short-haired dog with a brindled coat and square-jawed muzzle developed in Germany.
(noun.) someone who fights with his fists for sport.
(noun.) a member of a nationalistic Chinese secret society that led an unsuccessful rebellion in 1900 against foreign interests in China.
Checker: Wayne--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who packs boxes.
(n.) One who boxes; a pugilist.
Typed by Eugenia
Examples
- Instantly, Miss Skiffins stopped it with the neatness of a placid boxer, took off that girdle or cestus as before, and laid it on the table. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- In 1900 the Boxers murdered 250 Europeans and, it is said, nearly 30,000 Christians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Boxers became more and more threatening to the Europeans in China. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She was an ignorant woman, but of great force of character and in close sympathy with the Boxers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But eighteen glasses of gin consumed among boxers in an ignoble pot-house--it was an odious crime and not to be pardoned readily. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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