[f. BOX v.2 + -ER1.] One who boxes or fights with his fists; a pugilist.

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1742.  Fielding, J. Andrews, III. ix. A stout fellow and an expert boxer.

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1875.  Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), I. 154. As if I had received a blow from the expert hand of a boxer.

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