English

Namurachi Box Canyon, Mexico

Alternative forms

• box-canyon

Noun

box canyon ‎(plural box canyons)

1. A canyon which has a single access for entrance and exit, being otherwise enclosed on all sides by steep walls.
   • 1912, Jack London, Smoke Bellew, ch. 2:

     The Box Canyon was adequately named. It was a box, a trap.

   • 1917, Zane Grey, Wildfire ch. 6:

     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.

   • 2005 July 3, Alison Berkley, "In Telluride, the Skis Are Stowed, but Good Times Aren't ," New York Times (retrieved 16 Jan 2014):

     Highway 145 dead-ends on the east end of Telluride, where a box canyon affords no further passage.

References

• box canyon at OneLook Dictionary Search