Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BOX, v.t.

1. To inclose in a box; also, to furnish with boxes, as a wheel or block.
2. To strike with the hand or fist, especially the ear or side of the head.
3. To rehearse the several points of the compass in their proper order. – Encyc.
4. To make a hole or cut in a tree to procure the sap; as, to box a maple.
5. To sail round. [Sp. boxar.]