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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
box canyon
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Up ahead the route comes to an end in a box canyon.
Wiktionary
box canyon

alt. A canyon which has a single access for entrance and exit, being otherwise enclosed on all sides by steep walls. n. A canyon which has a single access for entrance and exit, being otherwise enclosed on all sides by steep walls.

Gazetteer
Box Canyon-Amistad, TX -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Texas
Population (2000): 76
Housing Units (2000): 135
Land area (2000): 4.018985 sq. miles (10.409124 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.018985 sq. miles (10.409124 sq. km)
FIPS code: 09658
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 29.528215 N, 101.168849 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Box Canyon-Amistad, TX
Box Canyon-Amistad
Box Canyon, TX
Box Canyon
Wikipedia
Box Canyon (Doña Ana County, New Mexico)

Box Canyon, originally known as Picacho Pass, is a canyon in Doña Ana County, New Mexico. Its mouth lies at an elevation of 3,927 feet / 1,197 meters. Its source is at .

Usage examples of "box canyon".

In a box canyon with a Bolo Mark XX on its way to blow them to hell.

I doubt those youngsters expected to hit anybody, when they shot--they were just trying to lure us down into some box canyon, where the he-wolf can cut us off and tear out our throats.

At lunchtime we lolled in the pleasant warmth of our favorite baby box canyon that held the sun and shut out the wind.

The drainage was a small box canyon, its head a hallway of stone ending in a rock wall fifty feet high.

Cuchillo said, leading the way along the narrowing trail toward the entrance to the box canyon.

When the arroyo ended in a box canyon, a switchbacked trail gave them access to the plateau above.

So we went, squeezing our way through the underbrush and through a narrow entrance into a box canyon beyond the far side of the flat.

The city is built inside a box canyon, with vertical cliffs on three sides, too steep and too tall to be passable.