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BOXING

Volume 5 · 74 words · 1842 Edition

among sailors, is used to denote the rehearsing the several points of the compass in their proper order.

Boxing is also used for the tapping of a tree, to make it yield its juice. The boxing of maple is performed by making a hole with an axe or chisel in the side of the tree, about a foot from the ground, that the liquor of which sugar is made may flow out through it.