box off

English

Verb

box off

  1. (nautical) To turn the head of a vessel either way by bracing the headyards aback.
  2. To enclose an area and separate it from a larger area by surrounding it in walls.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for box off in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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