| 单词 | to box about |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto box about † to box about Obsolete. extracted from boxv.1 transitive. To argue back and forth about (something); to bandy about (an idea, rumour, etc.).Earliest as the gerund or verbal noun. ΚΠ 1653 Moderate Intelligencer No. 8. 64 Ferdinando the 4th is chosen King of Rome by the German Princes; but many conjecture (after some little boxing about) that the English must give the Round-turn at last to degrade him. 1682 E. Hickeringill 2nd Pt. Hist. Whiggism 38 Box it about then in every Tantivee pulpit,..and tell me how many English-men..are proselyted to the new Tantivee-doctrine. 1727 J. Byrom Jrnl. 15 June in Private Jrnl. & Lit. Remains (1854) I. 265 I was resolved to speak my mind, and so I did, and..we boxed it about, and I think I came off very honourably at last. 1835 D. Crockett Acct. Col. Crockett's Tour 197 This old claim of ours had been boxed about for a quarter of a century. 1911 Outlook 25 Feb. 243/2 Slanders may live simply because they are boxed about among people who do not know..the person attacked. to box about to box about intransitive. Nautical. To sail back and forth, often changing direction. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > direct or manage ship [verb (intransitive)] > head in a certain course or direction > sail up and down busk1635 to box about1795 humbug1840 buzznack1864 1795 Gazette of U.S. (Philadelphia) 19 Mar. I kept boxing about from one hole to another till I found the French had left Sierra Leone. 1836 Fraser's Mag. 14 571 He often boxed about, in his Highland yacht, for a week together. 1850 E. K. Kane Jrnl. 13 Sept. in U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1853) xxiii. 185 While thus boxing about on one of our tacks. 1933 C. Muncaster Rolling round Horn viii. 140 We were now steering a course again, not boxing about trying ineffectually to defeat an unfriendly wind. < as lemmas |
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