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box n Cp EDD ~ sb1 9 (1) 'handbarrow,' DAE ~ cart
(1890) for box-barrow in sense 2.
1 Box-shaped compartment
on a 'komatik' or sled.
1905 DUNCAN 142 And he had not gone far on
the way before he fell in with another komatik, provided with a box, in which lay an old
woman bound to St Anthony hospital. P 153-65 She put a hooked rug on the box of the
komatik. 1973 GOUDIE 79 The kamutik was down over the bank and it started slipping and
Jim could not hold it. It was too heavily loaded and at last, turned over. The two eldest
children fell out of the box and started rolling down the bank.
2 Comb box-barrow, box-bar, box-bar tub: half barrel
or box with a long pole fastened to each side for carrying; see BARROW1.
1936 SMITH 56 It was very slow work as we had to split [the fish]
on the schooner deck, then pass it carefully down the boat and then bring it ashore in a
box-barrow. 1956 STORY 5 Box-bar-tub, a half barrel with two parallel handles fastened to
it. T 43/7-64 You'd make the box barrow out o' this half barrel, half flour barrel, and
put 'stags' on it. It came in very handy because we used to use fish manure on our
potatoes and cabbage.
box-cart, ~ car: box-shaped vehicle
with two wheels, drawn by horse or pony; cp CAR.
1901 Christmas
Review 10 Some other travellers bound in the same direction came upon him later,
sound asleep in a box-cart which stood at the entrance of the village in which the church
was situated. [1929] [1960] BURKE (ed White) 18 "Give Her Cod Liver Oil": She'll devour
at each meal / It's a sight for to see, / And a box-cart of tarts / And a puncheon of
tea. M 67-17 The box cart was ... a square box mounted on two wheels. This was the dump
truck of the day. It had a removable tail-gate, and its load could be dumped by the
simple expedient of removing the tail-gate, releasing the shafts from the harness and
permitting the law of gravity to function. It was used around the farm, around town for
delivery of coal and similar loads and in the road construction of the day. M 68-23 The
caplin were cast about three or four miles out the bay from Glovertown, brought to the
beach in boats, loaded on a box-cart and hauled to the potato ground by horse. 1978
Evening Telegram 19 Sep, p. 6 The [horse] was harnessed to a box-cart, used for
delivering coal.
box stairs: stairway enclosed by a
partition.
1972 MURRAY 186 Generally a small hallway separated the
parlour and the kitchen, and from it the stairs, usually 'box stairs,' ascended to the
four small rooms above.
box trap: box-like compartment of
netting, part of a 'cod trap.'
1977 Inuit Land Use 261 The
smaller cod that come to the coast and come fight into the bays—you can stick a cod
trap off from the shore ... you have a sort of leader net and then a box trap.
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