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box canyon en · NOUN

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1. A canyon which has a single access for entrance and exit, being otherwise enclosed on all sides by steep walls.
   • The Box Canyon was adequately named. It was a box, a trap. 1912, Jack London, chapter 2, in Smoke Bellew:
   • For days he camped on Wildfire's trail, always relentlessly driving him, always watching for the trap he hoped to find. . . . Sooner or later Wildfire would go down into a high-walled wash, from which there would be no outlet; or he would wander into a box-canyon. 1917, Zane Grey, chapter 6, in Wildfire:
   • Highway 145 dead-ends on the east end of Telluride, where a box canyon affords no further passage. 2005 July 3, Alison Berkley, “In Telluride, the Skis Are Stowed, but Good Times Aren't”, in New York Times, retrieved 16 Jan 2014:

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