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Box up   /bɑks əp/   Listen
verb
Box  v. t.  (past & past part. boxed; pres. part. boxing)  
1.
To inclose in a box.
2.
To furnish with boxes, as a wheel.
3.
(Arch.) To inclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to bring to a required form.
To box a tree, to make an incision or hole in a tree for the purpose of procuring the sap.
To box off, to divide into tight compartments.
To box up.
(a)
To put into a box in order to save; as, he had boxed up twelve score pounds.
(b)
To confine; as, to be boxed up in narrow quarters.





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"Box up" Quotes from Famous Books



... circumstances a meeting between them could be of no avail. And then a little packet was made up, which was to be given to him. How was it that Florence had brought with her all his presents and all his letters? But there they were in her box up stairs, and sitting by herself with weary fingers, she packed them, and left them packed under lock and key, addressed by herself to Harry Clavering, Esq. Oh, the misery of packing such a parcel! The feeling with which a woman does it is never experienced by a man. He chucks the ...
— The Claverings • Anthony Trollope
... grinned the tall man, kicking a small box up beside a slightly larger one, which served as a table. "Nothing much to eat but food. Canned truck ...
— Copper Streak Trail • Eugene Manlove Rhodes
... 'cos people was telling 'im to keep quiet, "a tartar—a perfect tartar. She's in a 'orsepittle at present, else I shouldn't be 'ere. And I shouldn't ha' been able to come if I 'adn't found five pounds wot she'd hid in a match-box up the chimbley." ...
— Sailor's Knots (Entire Collection) • W.W. Jacobs
... a bedroom taken for you. A gentleman came three days ago and took it, saying it was for a young gent who is going through to Weymouth. Tom," she called, "take this box up to number 12. Supper is ready for you, sir. I dare say you would ...
— One of the 28th • G. A. Henty
... arise and shake themselves, they stand in a cloud of dust. I do not like this habit in the hens; yet I observe how a correspondence exists in all the Vertebrata; for do not fine ladies similarly dust themselves? They do not, indeed, sit in the road a la Turque. They box up the dust, and take it to their dressing-rooms, and, because Nature has not provided them with feathers, ingenuity more than supplies the deficiency with the softest of white down brushes, that harbor and convey the coveted dust. I doubt not through the races one resembling purpose ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 • Various


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