Boxing
['bɒksɪŋ] or ['bɑksɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Box
(n.) The act of inclosing (anything) in a box, as for storage or transportation.
(n.) Material used in making boxes or casings.
(n.) Any boxlike inclosure or recess; a casing.
(n.) The external case of thin material used to bring any member to a required form.
(n.) The act of fighting with the fist; a combat with the fist; sparring.
Editor: Rebekah
Examples
- Thus the Barnacles were all over the world, in every direction--despatch-boxing the compass. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Machines for Assorting and Dipping, Drying and Boxing. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- And yet rich men probably have a greater superiority in the science and practise of boxing than they have in military qualities. Plato. The Republic.
- He provided foils for us, and Steerforth gave me lessons in fencing--gloves, and I began, of the same master, to improve in boxing. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- A person boxing may dodge a particular blow successfully, but in such a way as to expose himself the next instant to a still harder blow. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I could not shadow-box in front of the narrow long mirror at first because it looked so strange to see a man with a beard boxing. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The professor at the boxing gymnasium wore mustaches and was very precise and jerky and went all to pieces if you started after him. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- You are aware that I have some proficiency in the good old British sport of boxing. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- She hit into the mattresses as if she was boxing. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I wanted to take off the beard as soon as I started boxing but Catherine did not want me to. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Den as for boxing, he is box! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- They have the peculiar flattening and thickening which marks the boxing man. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
Typed by Judy