Synonyms:
packing, boxing
Meaning: the enclosure of something in a package or box
Synonyms:
boxing, pugilism, fisticuffs
Meaning: fighting with the fists
Usage examples
After that I took up boxing again.
Of course boxing should be encouraged in the army and navy.
Accordingly I thought it better to acknowledge that I had become an elderly man and would have to stop boxing.
"Never!" She said some extremely disagreeable things to him, and, I am sorry to say, ended by boxing his ears.
And yet rich men probably have a greater superiority in the science and practise of boxing than they have in military qualities.
To this day among some of the barbarians, especially in Asia, when prizes for boxing and wrestling are offered, belts are worn by the combatants.
Mr. Tebrick had persuaded her to hunt on Boxing Day, but with great difficulty, and she had not enjoyed it (though of hacking she was fond enough).
When I was in the Legislature and was working very hard, with little chance of getting out of doors, all the exercise I got was boxing and wrestling.
For we care nothing here for boxing, or for shooting with the bow; but for feasts, and songs, and harping, and dancing, and running races, to stretch our limbs on shore."
After a few years I had to abandon boxing as well as wrestling, for in one bout a young captain of artillery cross-countered me on the eye, and the blow smashed the little blood-vessels.
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