ppl. a. [f. BOX v.1 + -ED.] Enclosed in, or as in, a box; confined within uncomfortably narrow limits. Frequently with up. Boxed shutters: shutters folding into boxings.
1589. Warner, Alb. Eng., V. xxiii. 115. Their [i.e., Papists’] skaer-spright water, boxed Boans, their hoasts.
1885. Hugh Conway, Fam. Affair, xxxiv. 314. The fearful room with its boxed-up odour of death.
