Box-staple
a socket for holding the end of a lock bolt when the door is closed.
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a basic dance step in which the feet move as if forming a square or rectangle. Historical Examples The Flying U’s Last Stand B. M. Bower Excuse Me! Rupert Hughes
- Box-stoop
a high stoop reached by a flight or flights of steps alongside the building front.
- Box-store
a retail store that sells a limited assortment of basic grocery items, often, as at a warehouse, displayed in their original cartons in order to lower costs and prices.
- Box-stretcher
a heavy rectangular stretcher connecting successive legs of a table, chair, etc.
- Box--the--compass
Nautical. to boxhaul (often followed by off). Meteorology. to fly around the center of a storm in a boxlike pattern in order to gather meteorological data: to box a storm. box the compass, Nautical. to recite all of the points of the compass in a clockwise order. noun a receptacle or container made of wood, […]