Definition of Box up

1. Verb. Enclose or confine as if in a box.

Exact synonyms: Box In
Generic synonyms: Confine, Enclose, Hold In

Definition of Box up

1. Verb. (transitive) To pack into boxes ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Box Up

box plots
box room
box rooms
box score
box scores
box seat
box seats
box set
box sets
box spring
box the gnat
box tortoise
box tree
box turtle
box up (current term)
box white oak
box wine
box wrench
boxable
boxball
boxberries
boxberry
boxboard
boxboards
boxcar
boxcar function
boxcar functions
boxcars

Literary usage of Box up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Science of Railways by Marshall Monroe Kirkman (1912)
"If we cannot do this, then line the right tumbling shaft box up. A change of iV inch in the height of the link will make a change of about 1 inch in the cut ..."

2. Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire Into the Several Matters by Great Britain Coal Commission, Coal Commission, George Douglas Campbell Argyll, Great Britain (1871)
"And then they raise the same box up again ? —They raise the box up ; it is a system that requires a great deal of attention. 1972. ..."

3. General Science, First Course by Lewis Elhuff (1916)
"We do four times as much work when we lift a zoo-pound box up four feet as when we lift the same box up one foot. From these statements we see that to do ..."

4. Elements of Natural Philosophy, Elementary Statics and Dynamics (1862)
"PROBLEM Two men carry a large box up a hill, a sented in fig. 113; to find how much of th, thrown on each. Fig. 113. Suppose that the men hold the box at A ..."

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