box up

English

box up (third-person singular simple present boxes up, present participle boxing up, simple past and past participle boxed up)

(transitive) To pack into boxes.
(transitive) To confine.
to be boxed up in narrow quarters
- 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 160:
  “What! cried Julia. Go box’d up three in a post-chaise in this weather, when we may have seats in a barouche! No, my dear Edmund, that will not quite do.”
(transitive, gambling) To shuffle (dice) so that the gamblers can choose from among them.
- 1948, Thomas Louis Stix, "Say it Ain't So, Joe.", page 243:
  The book gets behind the money, the mechanic picks up the crap stick and starts boxing up the dice.
- 1980, John Scarne, Scarne on Dice, page 275:
  He made no attempt to rip the die back out again, but simply left it in the game and when the dice were boxed up it went into the bowl and was lost […]