boxingn.1
/ˈbɒksɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈbɑksɪŋ/, Scottish English /ˈbɔksɪŋ/, Australian English /ˈbɔksɪŋ/, New Zealand English /ˈbɒksɪŋ/ I. The action of box v.2† 3. Nautical. The action of turning a ship across the wind quickly by setting the foremost sails aback, so that the vessel stops and may even start to move backwards before moving forward on the new tack; = box-hauling n. Obsolete.Apparently only recorded in dictionaries.
1. The action or process of applying a cupping-glass in medical treatment, esp. over a wound or vein so as to bleed a person. Also as a modifier; esp. in boxing cup, boxing glass: a cupping-glass. Cf. box n.2 2b. Now historical and rare.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > bloodletting > [noun] > cupping
ventosing1386
boxing?c1425
ventosityc1485
cupping1519
the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > other surgical equipment > [noun] > cupping-glassor -horn
box?a1425
bleeding-boistc1440
ventose1500
cucurbit?1541
cucurbitule?1541
cupping-glass1545
boxing glass1562
ventosa1562
wind-glass1585
cupping box1592
boxing cup1605
cup-glass1616
cup1617
bleeding-bowl1911
?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 545 Ventosynge or boxynge is settynge to of ventoses, by þe whiche þe mater þat is bytwene þe felle and þe flesche is voydede.
1519 W. Horman Vulgaria iv. f. 40 Launsynge, serchynge, cuttynge, rasynge, boxynge, and cuppynge.
1562 W. Turner Bk. Natures Bathes Eng. f. 17, in 2nd Pt. Herball Let hym set cuppes or boxynge glasses upon his shulders.
1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke i. v. 6 If age or weaknes doe prohibyte bloudletting, you must vse boxing.
1605 J. Mosan tr. C. Wirsung Gen. Pract. Physick iii. xiv. 420 Bathing in sweet water is very profitable. So are also boxing cups set vnpickt vpon the sides, whereby to extract all windinesse.
1651 tr. L. Fioravanti Three Exact Pieces i. xxv. 20 You may see by experience in this kind of Fever, how that sweats and boxing is very appropriate to their solution.
2018 E. Decamp in B. L. Johnson & E. Decamp Blood Matters xi. 168 I am focusing on instances when blood is let directly from a vein or artery through a single incision..rather than evacuations through leeching, scarification (multiple little cuts), or cupping (a suction technique also contemporarily known as ‘boxing’—hence cupping- and boxing-glasses—and as ‘ventosing’ in the Middle Ages).
2. † b. Law (chiefly Scottish). The action of lodging or depositing pleadings or other documents in a law court. Obsolete.
a. The action or process of box v.2 (in various senses); esp. the action of putting something into a box; the action of providing or fitting something with a box or casing.With use alluding to the Eucharist in quot. 1546 cf. box n.2 2a.
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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > [noun] > into a sack, bag, or box
boxing1546
sacking1569
bagging1711
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] > wooden structures or wooden parts of > means of fitting together > methods of
mortising1589
notching1599
scarfing1644
tabulation1658
mitringc1664
tenoning1678
dovetailing1703
cocking1710
tabling1717
cogging1823
foxtail-wedging1825
mitre dovetailing1825
halving1842
key-dovetailing1847
boxing1874
society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > excavating or sinking of shaft > securing shaft
boxing1900
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > shaft > [noun] > parts of > journal > part which encloses or supports > act of boring out
boxing1903
1546 J. Bale First Examinacyon A. Askewe f. 26v Se what an horrible worke here is now, for the boxinge therof [sc. of the communion wafer], and what a great heresie it is to beleue that Christ dwell not therin.
1703 in H. M. Burt First Cent. Hist. Springfield (1899) II. 75 Whatever Cart way..shal be stoped..by reason of any Persons boxing of Pine trees, the Improvers of sd Trees shal remove such Nusances.
1803 T. Munroe Let. 14 Mar. in T. Jefferson Papers (2013) XL. 65 A person who thinks boxing absolutely necessary says each tree will cost One dollar, when compleated, that is, the tree itself, planting, boxing, painting the box, [etc.].
1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 351/2 Boxing,..3. (Wood-working.) The fitting of the shoulder of a tenon in the surface of the timber, which is mortised for the reception of the tenon.
1900 Coal & Metal Miners' Pocketbk. (ed. 6) 574 Boxing, a method of securing shafts solely by slabs and wooden pegs.
1903 Daily Chron. 10 Mar. 10/5 Wheeler..one used to rivetting and boxing.
1929 W. F. Neff Victorian Working Women ii. 38 Even after a law was passed ordering the boxing of machinery, it was disregarded generally.
1989 K. Berg et al. Get to Point vii. 82 You can now easily add touches of color by boxing, underlining, or adding exclamation points or other punctuation.
2012 Chronicle (Toowoomba, Queensland) (Nexis) 24 Oct. 7 Once packed in bags, the nuts are taken to the Endeavour Foundation on Ramsay St for boxing.
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society > law > administration of justice > court papers > [noun] > lodging of documents in court
boxing1788
1788 in Acts Sederunt Scotl. (1790) 630 Act to enforce the regular boxing of Answers, and other Papers ordered by the Court.
1863 Act 31 & 32 Vict. c. §71 The Court may dispense with the printing and boxing of any portions of the same.
1904 Cases Court of Session, Court of Justiciary, & House of Lords 6 340 The reclaiming note was properly boxed in due time. What the Act of Parliament deals with is boxing, and that has been done.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > [noun] > methods of going about
stayinga1618
boxing1766
box-hauling1769
gybing1769
wearing1769
1766 T. H. Croker et al. Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. III. sig. 4cv Boxing, in navigation, the act of bracing a ship's fore-mast or head-sails aback, i.e. on the wind-side of the mast, when..she had deviated from her course.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Boxing, an operation..similar to box-hauling. It is performed by laying the head-sails..aback..in order to throw the ship's head back into the line of her course.
4. Australian and New Zealand. The action of mixing up or joining together different flocks of sheep or herds of cattle, either accidentally or intentionally. Cf. box v.2 12a.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > sheep herding > separating or mixing sheep
shedding1832
box1868
boxing1869
1869 Queenslander (Brisbane) 16 Oct. 6/1 The lessees of the runs through which public roads run, or their employés, are at liberty to post flocks of sheep along the road wherever there is a little grass or a waterhole, often rendering it extremely difficult for the travellers to avoid ‘boxing’.
1871 Lady M. A. Barker Christmas Cake in Four Quarters iv. iii. 278 We calls it boxing when your sheep go and join another mob feeding close by, and you can't tell one from another except by the brand or the ear-mark.
1944 Bulletin (Sydney) 30 Aug. 13/3 Jack..kept the mass of mutton moving; the trouble was to prevent their boxing with station sheep.
II. Concrete senses.
5. † b. A structure of boxes. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use.
a. Something, such as a casing, conduit, etc., constructed after the manner of, or in the shape of, a box; spec. (a) the lining of a well; (b) (chiefly Scottish and U.S. regional (southern and south midlands)) the panelling of a wall, cladding of a building, etc., esp. when made of wood.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > conveyor > [noun] > conduit, channel, or tube
conduit1340
conveyance1577
forcer1598
lead1598
suspiracle1598
trunk1610
by-conduit1631
ducture1670
boxing1683
duct1713
launder1736
the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > well > shaft > lining of
steening1767
boxing1907
1683 J. Reid Scots Gard'ner i. vi. 27 Where your Boxing is timber or Stone, fill up the bordure of Earth to the top thereof.
1700 Probable Reasons Fire Edinb. 2 That all Houses be sufficiently Plastered before any Boxing of Windows or Chimney-pieces be fixed, so that there be no Communication betwixt the Boxing and Lath or Geisting.
1868 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1865–6 6 319 A water pipe or boxing eighteen inches in the clear is laid under ground to the centre of the yard.
1907 M. H. Norris Veil v. 44 Its [sc. a well's] slimy, moss-covered stone boxing.
1943 J. Stuart Taps for Private Tussie xxi. 256 In one week we had the framework up, the boxin nailed to the framework, the winders and doors sawed.
1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. May 483/2 Material should be rammed well as the walls are being built... The boxing may be removed the day following placing.
1996 Dominion (Wellington, N.Z.) 3 Apr. It is time to remove the wooden boxing from the concrete pedestrian bridge linking the city square with the lagoon.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > box > [noun] > a structure or work of
boxing1839
1839 T. Hood in Comic Ann. 33 Burn the boxing! Burn the Beadle!
6. Shipbuilding. A scarf joint, esp. one connecting the keel and the stem of a wooden ship. Now chiefly historical.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > shipbuilding > methods of joining timbers
scarf1711
boxing1805
1805 Shipwright's Vade-mecum 178 The boxing, of lower end of the stem, may be drawn by setting aft the length of the scarph from the foremost end of the keel.
1860 H. Stuart Novice's or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 65 A scarph, called the flat scarph, or boxing scarph.
2012 A. Lemmers tr. A. J. Hoving Nicolaes Witsen & Shipbuilding 40/1 The keel would end with a typical scarf, called the boxing of the stem, making the joint between the stem and keel as strong as possible.
7. A box or case for the shutters of a window.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > parts of windows > [noun] > fittings or ornaments of windows > shutter > box or fitting for shutters
shutter-case1810
shutter-stand1810
boxing1819
1819 P. Nicholson Archit. Dict. II. 173/1 If the variation be ever so small, there will be a very considerable error in the ends of the shutters when enclosed in the boxings.
1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 220 Boxings of a Window—The two cases, one on each side of a window, into which the shutters are folded.
1908 G. Ellis Mod. Pract. Joinery (ed. 3) xiii. 228 The framed pilaster covering the boxing is cut, at the level of the window board.
1994 C. R. Lounsbury Illustr. Gloss. Early Southern Archit. & Landscape 128 Elbow, In joinery, the vertical lining of a window recess between the floor and the boxing of the window shutter.
8. In plural. In milling: a coarse grade of flour, separated from fine flour and bran by sifting. In later use chiefly English regional (northern).
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1843 Newcastle Jrnl. 3 June The Mill Stock consists of Yarmouth and Fine Flour,..Pot and Pearl Barley, Boxings, Fine and Common Sharps,..Mill Utensils, &c.
1926 Northern Daily Mail (Hartlepool) 13 Jan. 6/4 The market had an easier tendency, very little interest being shown in any class of grain... Flour was unchanged; boxings reduced 5s. per ton.
2002 R. Bradshaw Urchin's Song i. 18 It was cheaper than most places and although there was a lot of chaff in it and what her mam called boxings, it made as much bread as the nice white flour and moreover it was filling.
9. U.S. The words, figures, or signs written or printed above or at the sides of the columns of a table of statistics, etc., to indicate or explain the character of the contents. Cf. box head n. 3. Now rare.
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1890 2nd Ann. Rep. Statistics Railways U.S. 1889 (Interstate Commerce Comm.) 271 The use of ‘miscellaneous’ in the boxing of this table requires a word of explanation.
1943 Jrnl. Tennessee Acad. Sci. 18 69 The number before each type corresponds to the number in the boxing of Table 2.
10. Stiffening material in the toe of a shoe.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > parts of footwear > [noun] > toe > stiffening for
boxing1897
toe-puff1929
1897 Vogue 3 June 350/3 What deep toe boxing on walking boots and ties this season! I fancy it makes my foot look clumsy. Do you think so?
1953 Good Housek. Feb. 250 (advt.) Black calf pump you'll wear everywhere... The new soft toe that holds it shape without rigid boxing.
1990 K. K. Wu Foot Orthoses iii. 81/2 A laced shoe with Goodyear welt construction. It uses only..hypoallergenic celastic toe boxing.
Compounds
C1. As a modifier, designating a tool or device used for excavating or boring a recess or hole, esp. in a piece of wood; cf. boxing machine n. (a) at Compounds 3. Now chiefly historical.
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1583 in M. A. Havinden Househ. & Farm Inventories Oxfordshire (1965) 141 Syx mylbyls and two boxing chissels.
1830 Particulars & Conditions of Sale Two Dwelling Houses Liquorpond Street i. 35 An iron bar for wheels, two machines for drawing boxes, fourteen wheel wrenches,..a set of boxing tools, a large augur, [etc.].
1890 Engineer (N.Y.) 20 Dec. 146/1 Some of the spindles used in ‘boxing planes’ are driven at 12,000 revolutions per minute, but these have solid or milling cutters.
1923 J. Shepherd Motor Body Building x. 112 All boxing, rebating, and grooving was done with routers, boxing tools and small planes.
1976 Trad. Tools Carpenter & other Craftsmen 4 ‘Turned-edge chisel’... Used by wheelwrights, together with the boxing gouge, to cut out the recesses in the face and back of the hub... In later times..this task was performed by the boxing engine.
C2. With adverbs, in compound verbal nouns corresponding to phrasal verbs at box v.2 Phrasal verbs, as in boxing in, boxing off, boxing up.
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1788 J.-N. de Sauseuil tr. J. Bourdé de Villehuet Manœuverer iv. iv. 256 The rear ship..after boxing off, has brought-to at B.
1832 Acts Gen. Assembly Georgia 1831 310 His Excellency the Governor..is hereby authorised to pay Major Gen. W. W. Montgomery..such sum as his Excellency may deem reasonable and just, for cleaning, returning, and boxing up of the arms thus furnished.
1847 Renfrewshire Mag. Feb. 235 The boxing-in of dangerous machinery is of great importance.
1959 H. P. Tritton Time means Tucker 16/2 Getting his sheep mixed-up with the travelling mob..was known as ‘boxing-up’.
1990 E. H. Daniels Eagle Seamanship (ed. 3) vii. 139 (caption) Recovering by boxing off on original tack.
1996 F. Popcorn & L. Marigold Clicking ii. 169 What is the cost of this ‘boxing in’ of women? At best, some stay and grumble, but most make their plans to leave as soon as they can find the opportunity.
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boxing machine n. (a) a machine used for boring a hole, esp. for the box of a wheel (cf. box n.2 7) (now chiefly historical); (b) a machine used for packing items into boxes; also with modifying word indicating the type of item packed.
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1850 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. May 327 A boxing machine for boring out the inside of wagon and carriage hubs.
1869 U.S. Patent 91,429 1 (heading) Improvement in match-boxing machine.
1908 U.S. Patent 904,159 4/1 A boxing machine for toothpicks comprising a hopper, a chute, [etc.].
1978 J. Bailey Country Wheelwright vi. 59 The boxing machine is yet another tool of the older order, and helps to cut out the centre of the nave of a wheel which is for a wooden axled vehicle.
2013 M. Hammarberg Mormon Quest for Glory (e-book ed.) The filled cans were cooled in a cold-water bath, carried to the labeling and boxing machines for packaging, [etc.].
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boxingn.2
/ˈbɒksɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈbɑksɪŋ/ 1. The action or an act of striking or hitting, esp. with the hand. Also figurative. Now somewhat rare and chiefly in collocation with ears; cf. to box a person's ears at box v.1 1.
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1594 T. Stocker tr. G. Du Vair Holy Loue Heauenly Wisdome 405 He is nothing like vnto those wicked Iudges, which take pleasure in nothing but in cuffing and boxing of men, and to haue occasion to hang and torture them vpon the wheele.
1630 ‘M. Car’ tr. St. Francis de Sales Treat. Loue of God ix. vii. 538 The poore Apostle endured this as a shamefull and infamous wrong: and therevpon termed it a boxing or buffetting, and petitioned to God to be deliuered of it.
1683 W. Kennett tr. Erasmus Witt against Wisdom 82 Taking a great pride, and delight in frowning, and looking big upon the trembling Urchins, in boxing, slashing, striking with the ferula, and in the exercise of all their other methods of tyranny.
1706 J. Stevens New Spanish Dict. i. Abofeteadúra, or Abofeteamíento, a boxing, cuffing or buffeting.
1860 T. H. Hittell Adventures J. C. Adams i. viii. 67 With a little judicious boxing of their ears, they lay still at last.
2005 L. Kurland Love came just in Time (new ed.) viii. 162 Hugh had given Gideon what Megan could only term a thorough boxing of the ears.
2. The action of fighting with the fists; (now) esp. this activity as a sport, in which two boxers wearing padded gloves attempt to score points or achieve a knockout by delivering punches to the head or upper body. Also occasionally applied to martial arts in which kicks, elbow attacks, etc., are permitted as well as punches or strikes with the hand (cf. kick-boxing n.).Contemporary boxing matches take place in a roped square ring and are divided into rounds (see round n.1 36a). The rules of modern professional and amateur boxing are based on the Queensberry rules (Queensberry rules n.), introduced in 1867.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > [noun]
defence1549
pugilation1656
fencing1692
boxing1693
the (noble, also manly) art of self-defence1724
noble art1749
bruising1750
ring1770
noble science1778
pugilism1788
sparring1797
the sweet science1810
the fancy1820
pugilistics1820
pugnastics1830
fista1839
scrapping1891
ring-work1899
no contest1922
1693 A. Pitfield tr. S. de la Loubère New Hist. Relation Kingdom Siam I. 49 In Boxing, they guard their Hand with three or four rounds of Cord instead of the Copper Rings, which those of Laos do use in such Combats.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 115. ¶8 This..gives a Man all the pleasure of Boxing, without the Blows.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) We may distinguish three species of boxing; the first, where both the hands and head were absolutely naked, as is practised among us.
1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 343 The noble science of boxing keeps up the bull-dog courage of the nation.
1881 Sportsman's Year-bk. 310 Rules for Boxing. The match to be a fair stand-up boxing match, in a 24-ft. ring.
1941 F. Gilmore Push Yourself iv. 27 In boxing it is called ‘rolling the punch’ when a boxer, not having time to avoid being hit, deliberately moves with the punch when it hits him.
1994 Black Belt Feb. 37 (caption) Shaolin boxing incorporates a simultaneous punch/kick attack, striking the opponent in the chin and mid-section.
2007 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 9 Dec. i. 24/1 In more than two decades of professional boxing, he has won 11 fights and lost 31.
3. With reference to an animal: the action or an act of striking or fighting another animal with the paw, foot, etc.
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1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xv. 164 The hugging, pawing, and boxing, which characterize the black and grisly bears.
2017 N. Jennings Hares 60 Female Brown Hare are slightly bigger than males and, by boxing, are quite capable of showing that they are not ready or willing to mate.
Compounds
C1. General use as a modifier, as in boxing champion, boxing club, boxing gym, etc.
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1690 T. D'Urfey Collin's Walk Annot. 204 We have an account of the Devils appearing to him, indeavouring to disturb him in his Prayers..which if I have chang'd into a Boxing bout to adapt it the nearer to my Poem, I hope the Author has receiv'd no Injury, and that the Reader will forgive me.
1780 J. O'Keeffe Tony Lumpkin in Town i. 3 If he'd have a tune from his music-master, a thrust from his pushing-master..or a square from his boxing-master, I'm the boy that can shew him life in the genteel way.
1813 Examiner 11 Jan. 26/2 The Professor..put himself in a boxing attitude.
1915 Boston Daily Globe 15 Jan. 6/5 He is going to ‘bankroll’ an out-of-town boxing club.
1997 ‘Q’ Deadmeat 270 I took him down to the boxing gym and worked on his abdominals and started getting him to hit the bag.
2014 New Yorker 28 July 42/2 A six-foot-seven former heavyweight boxing champion who was known as Dr. Ironfist.
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boxing glove n. a protective covering for the hand, worn by boxers; (now) esp. a padded glove with a single undivided section for the fingers.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > [noun] > boxing-glove
muffle1747
muffler1747
boxing glove1780
glove1847
mitt1877
pillow1882
pug-glove1938
1780 C. Marriott New Royal Eng. Dict. II. Gauntlet, An iron glove used for defence... Appropriated by translators to the cestus, or boxing glove used in the Circensian and Olympic games.
1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues IV. 341 We should have our arms bound round with boxing-gloves, that the blows and the wards might be practised.
2014 Daily Tel. 25 Apr. 32/1 They punch, kick and elbow each other wearing boxing gloves but without any protective headgear.
boxing match n. an event in which two boxers fight against each other, now typically consisting of a scheduled number of two- or three-minute rounds (round n.1 36a).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > [noun] > bout or contest
boxing match1699
set-to1743
bruising-match1757
show-off1776
rally1805
turn-up1810
mill1812
spar1814
twista1849
wap1887
go1890
scrap1905
promotion1907
1699 F. Terne tr. A.-T. Limojon de Saint-Didier City & Republick Venice iii. 113 The great number of Spectators that flock hither from all Parts of the City, so soon as these Boxing-Matches are known.
1714 Spectator No. 629. ⁋17 He..hath had six Duels and four and twenty Boxing-Matches in Defense of his Majesty's Title.
1975 D. Clement & I. La Frenais Porridge: Scripts (2002) 2nd Ser. Episode 3. 183/1 (stage direct.) A group of prisoners is watching a boxing match on television.
2017 @Nigee2017 24 Mar. in twitter.com (accessed 28 May 2019) I challenge you to a charity boxing match.
boxing promoter n. a person or company that organizes, finances, or publicizes a boxing match, esp. for profit.
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1889 York Herald 29 Apr. 8/4 It is pretty safe to predict that it will be a long time ere another boxing promoter offers such a sum as £1,000 in prizes as Mr. Hyams did.
1938 Life 20 June 36/1 Michael Strauss Jacobs is a boxing promoter. Every important boxer in the U.S...must fight either for Mike Jacobs or with his approval.
2015 Times (Nexis) 25 Mar. Cyclone Promotions, a boxing promoter run by former world featherweight champion Barry McGuigan.
boxing ring n. an enclosure in which boxers fight, now usually consisting of a raised square platform with surrounding ropes; cf. ring n.1 18a.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > [noun] > ring
boxing ring1786
rope ring1808
prize ring1821
stage1829
1786 Microcosm 6 Nov. (1787) 10 The undisputed Lord and President of the boxing-ring.
1827 W. Scott Two Drovers in Chron. Canongate 1st Ser. I. xiii. 307 He found few antagonists able to stand up to him in the boxing ring.
1943 Gen 2 Jan. 28/1 There are more birdbrains and dim-wits outside the boxing ring..as ever stepped around in it.
2006 New Yorker 20 Mar. 86/3 Two boxers are whaling away at each other in a boxing ring.
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boxingadj.
/ˈbɒksɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈbɑksɪŋ/ That boxes (box v.1); engaged in the sport of boxing.
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1624 A. Leighton Speculum Belli Sacri xxvi. 114 A false deceiving Hananiah with his hornes;..a furious boxing Zedekiah smiting Gods Ministers on the mouth, will prove but miserable comforters in the day of danger.
1730 S. Fuller Math. Misc. iv. 123 We beat the Fields with wond'rous Care, At last we found a boxing Hare.
1782 B. Franklin Let. 9 Mar. in Papers (2001) XXXVI. 676 When I was a boxing Boy, it was allow'd after an Adversary said he had enough, to give him a rising Blow.
1810 Sporting Mag. 36 145 A tolerable muster of amateurs and boxing gentry.
1998 Daily Mail 14 Mar. (Weekend section) 49/1 We..came upon a pair of boxing kangaroos who froze mid-punch, then reluctantly lollopped off the track to continue their fight.
2012 Sun (Nexis) 2 Aug. Savannah and the other Team GB boxing girls, Nicola Adams and Natasha Jonas, are strong fighters.
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