Box-set
a boxlike stage set consisting of flats that form the back wall, side walls, and often the ceiling, painted to represent the interior of a room.
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a record of the play of a game, especially a baseball or basketball game, in which, on separate sides of the record, the players on each team are listed in a column by name and position, with additional rows of columns, each headed by the abbreviation of the type of information to be given for […]
- Box-seat
a seat in a box at the theater, opera, etc. Historical Examples Jorrocks’ Jaunts and Jollities Robert Smith Surtees Buffalo Bill’s Spy Trailer Colonel Prentiss Ingraham Tomaso’s Fortune and Other Stories Henry Seton Merriman Felix Holt, The Radical George Eliot Kitty’s Conquest Charles King The Landloper Holman Day The Crooked Stick Rolf Boldrewood Riding and […]
- Box-sill
a sill for a building frame, composed of a plate resting on the basement wall and a joist or header at the outer edge of the plate, as well as a soleplate for the studs resting either directly on the joists or on the rough flooring.
- Box-social
a social event, usually to raise funds, at which individually prepared and contributed box lunches or dinners are auctioned off to the participants, the highest bidder in each case often having the privilege of sharing the meal with its preparer. Historical Examples The Woman Who Toils Mrs. John Van Vorst and Marie Van Vorst Land […]
- Box-someone-in
box someone in