boxing

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Material used for boxes.
2. n. A boxlike covering or enclosure.
3. n. The act of enclosing in a box.
4. n. The act, activity, or sport of fighting with the fists, especially according to rules requiring the use of boxing gloves and limiting legal blows to those striking above the waist and on the front or sides of the opponent.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. Nautical, a square piece of dry hard wood used in connecting the frame-timbers of a ship.
2. n. One of the cases on each side of a window into which the inside shutters are folded.
3. n. plural The sides of a window-frame where the weights hang.
4. n. plural Among millers, coarse flour separated in the process of bolting.
5. n. The process of fitting a piece of wood to receive a tenon.
6. n. The giving of a box or present, as at Christmas. See boxing-day.
7. n. The act or practice of fighting with the fists, with or without boxing-gloves; sparring.
8. n. In mining, a method of securing shafts solely by slabs and wooden pegs.

Wiktionary

1. v. present participle of box.
2. n. sports A sport where two opponents punch each other with gloved fists, the object being to score more points by the end of the match or by knockout, or technical knockout.
3. n. Material used for making boxes or casing.
4. n. construction Casing.
5. n. programming Automatical conversion of value types to objects by wrapping them within a heap-allocated reference type.
6. v. present participle of box.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The act of inclosing (anything) in a box, as for storage or transportation.
2. n. Material used in making boxes or casings.
3. n. Any boxlike inclosure or recess; a casing.
4. n. (Arch.) The external case of thin material used to bring any member to a required form.
5. n. The act of fighting with the fist; a combat with the fist; sparring; pugilism.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. fighting with the fists
2. n. the enclosure of something in a package or box