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▪ I. boxing, vbl. n.1|ˈbɒksɪŋ|
[f. box v.1 and n.2]
I. From the vb.
1. a. The putting into, or providing with, a box. Various technical uses: see quots.
1607Hieron Wks. I. 359 What boxing them vp to preuent embezeling! a1877Knight Dict. Mech., Boxing,..the fitting of the shoulder of a tenon in the surface of the timber, which is mortised for the reception of the tenon. 1884F. J. Britten Watch & Clockm. 36 Boxing-in..implies, in addition to the actual fixing of the movement, the fitting and connecting the winding stem. a1884Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl., Boxing Machine, a machine for boring out the boxes of hubs. 1900Coal & Metal Miners' Pocketbk. (ed. 6) 574 Boxing, a method of securing shafts solely by slabs and wooden pegs. 1903Daily Chron. 10 Mar. 10/5 Wheeler..one used to rivetting and boxing. 1913W. H. Dooley Man. Shoemaking 180 Boxing, a term used to designate the stiffening material placed in the toe of a shoe to support it and retain the shape; such as leather, composition of leather and paper, wire net..etc.
b. Law. The lodgement of pleadings and other documents in court.
1863Act 31 & 32 Vict. c. §71 The Court may dispense with the printing and boxing of any portions of the same.
†2. The applying of ‘boxes’ or cupping-glasses in surgical treatment; cupping. Hence boxing-glass: a cupping-glass. Obs.
1519W. Horman Vulg. 40 Launsynge, serchynge, cuttynge, rasynge, boxynge, and cuppynge. 1562Turner Baths 17 Let hym set cuppes or boxynge glasses upon his shulders. 1610P. Barrough Meth. Physick i. v. (1639) 7 If age or weaknesse do prohibite bloud-letting, you must use boxing.
3. Naut. = box-hauling.
1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1789) Boxing, an operation..similar to box-hauling. It is performed by laying the head-sails..aback..in order to throw the ship's head back into the line of her course.
II. From the n.
4. a. A structure or work of boxes.
a1845Hood Incend. Song vi, Burn the boxing! Burn the Beadle!
b. A wooden casing, conduit, etc., constructed after the manner of a box; the lining of a well.
1867Trans. Ill. Agric. Soc. 1865–6 VI. 319 A water pipe or boxing eighteen inches in the clear is laid under ground to the centre of the yard. 1907M. H. Norris Veil v. 44 Its [sc. a well's] slimy, moss-covered stone boxing. 1950N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. May 483/2 Material should be rammed well as the walls are being built... The boxing may be removed the day following placing.
5. Ship-building. A square piece of dry hard wood used in connecting the frame timbers of a ship (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.); also a scarf joint.
c1850Rudim. Navig. (Weale) 100 The term Boxing is also applied to the scarph of the lower piece of the stem, let flatwise into the fore-foot. 1860H. Stuart Seaman's Catech. 65 A scarph, called the flat scarph, or boxing scarph.
6. (See quot.)
1823P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 220 Boxings of a Window—The two cases, one on each side of a window, into which the shutters are folded.
7. Austral. and N.Z. (See quots. and box v.1 5 b.)
1871M. A. Barker Christmas Cake iv. iii. 278 We calls it boxing when your sheep go and join another mob feeding close by, and you can't tell one from another except by the brand or the ear-mark. 1959H. P. Tritton Time means Tucker 16/2 Getting his sheep mixed-up with the travelling mob..was known as ‘boxing-up’.
▪ II. boxing, vbl. n.2|ˈbɒksɪŋ|
[f. box v.2 + -ing1.]
1. The action of fighting with fists; now usually applied to a pugilistic encounter in which the hands are covered with well-padded leather gloves. Also transf. of the action of animals.
1711Addison Spect. No. 115 ⁋8 This..gives a Man all the pleasure of Boxing, without the Blows. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v., We may distinguish three species of boxing; the first, where both the hands and head were absolutely naked, as is practised among us. 1824W. Irving T. Trav. I. 343 The noble science of boxing keeps up the bull-dog courage of the nation. 1856Kane Arct. Exp. II. xv. 164 The hugging, pawing, and boxing, which characterize the black and grisly bears.
2. attrib. and in comb., as boxing-glove, boxing-match, etc.
1714Spect. No. 629 ⁋17 He..hath had six Duels and four and twenty Boxing-Matches in Defense of his Majesty's Title. 1813Examiner 11 Jan. 26/2 The Professor..put himself in a boxing attitude. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 398 We should put on boxing-gloves, that the blows and the wards might be practised. |