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box canyon
noun
- a canyon with steep side walls terminating headwards in a vertical cliff.
box canyon
noun
- a canyon with vertical or almost vertical walls
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Word History and Origins
Origin of box canyon1
An Americanism dating back to 1870–75
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Example Sentences
This no doubt is to be attributed in large measure to the protecting influence of the box canyon.
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“Tom Chavis came to the box canyon at three yesterday afternoon,” she said firmly.
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He could now see that the cleft did not run to the top of the cliff, but through it, like a tiny box canyon.
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How would you good people like to make up a party to go to Box Canyon sometime in the near future?
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There were deep indentations in the walls, running back to form box canyon, choked with green of cedar and spruce and pinon.
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