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box canyon

noun

  1. a canyon with steep side walls terminating headwards in a vertical cliff.


box canyon

noun

  1. 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.

“Tom Chavis came to the box canyon at three yesterday afternoon,” she said firmly.

He could now see that the cleft did not run to the top of the cliff, but through it, like a tiny box canyon.

How would you good people like to make up a party to go to Box Canyon sometime in the near future?

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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