BOX IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does box in mean? 

• BOX IN (verb)
  The verb BOX IN has 1 sense:

1. enclose or confine as if in a box

  Familiarity information: BOX IN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOX IN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Enclose or confine as if in a box

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

box in; box up

Hypernyms (to "box in" is one way to...):

confine; enclose; hold in (close in)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

I stood paralysed, with the little box in my hand.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had brought a candle and a tinder-box in his pocket.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I could hardly believe but that I was in a dream, and that I should wake presently in number forty-four, to the solitary box in the coffee-room and the familiar waiter again.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A moment later she had appeared with a red flat box in her hand.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Catherine was restlessly miserable; she could almost have run round to the box in which he sat and forced him to hear her explanation.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I heard several bangs or buffets, as I thought given to the eagle (for such I am certain it must have been that held the ring of my box in his beak), and then, all on a sudden, felt myself falling perpendicularly down, for above a minute, but with such incredible swiftness, that I almost lost my breath.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

And at Michaelmas, perhaps, a fourth may be added: some small hunting-box in the vicinity of everything so dear; for as to any partnership in Thornton Lacey, as Edmund Bertram once good-humouredly proposed, I hope I foresee two objections: two fair, excellent, irresistible objections to that plan.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Sir Nigel alone, unconscious to all appearance of the universal panic, walked with unfaltering step up the centre of the road, a silken handkerchief in one hand and his gold comfit-box in the other.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Every evening, at the same hour, he walked into the consulting-room, examined the books, put down five and three-pence for every guinea that I had earned, and carried the rest off to the strong-box in his own room.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Adele was not easy to teach that day; she could not apply: she kept running to the door and looking over the banisters to see if she could get a glimpse of Mr. Rochester; then she coined pretexts to go downstairs, in order, as I shrewdly suspected, to visit the library, where I knew she was not wanted; then, when I got a little angry, and made her sit still, she continued to talk incessantly of her ami, Monsieur Edouard Fairfax de Rochester, as she dubbed him (I had not before heard his prenomens), and to conjecture what presents he had brought her: for it appears he had intimated the night before, that when his luggage came from Millcote, there would be found amongst it a little box in whose contents she had an interest.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)