box up

present singular third person boxes up · participle present boxing up · participle past boxed up · past boxed up

1. transitiveTo pack into boxes.

   Synonyms: box

2. transitiveTo confine.

   to be boxed up in narrow quarters

   1 more example

   “What! cried Julia. Go box’d up three in a post-chaise in this weather, when we may have seats in a barouche! No, my dear Edmund, that will not quite do.”

   1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 160

3. transitivegamblingTo shuffle (dice) so that the gamblers can choose from among them.

   The book gets behind the money, the mechanic picks up the crap stick and starts boxing up the dice.

   1948, Thomas Louis Stix, "Say it Ain't So, Joe.", page 243

   1 more example

   He made no attempt to rip the die back out again, but simply left it in the game and when the dice were boxed up it went into the bowl and was lost […]

   1980, John Scarne, Scarne on Dice, page 275