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Box the Compass

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Repeat in order the 32 points. (Spanish, boxar, to sail round.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Bower of Bliss
Bowie Knife
Bowing
Bowled
Bowling
Bowls
Bowse
Bowyer God
Box
Box and Cox
Box the Compass
Box Days
Box Harry (To)
Boxing-Day
Boy
Boy Bachelor
Boy Bishop
Boycott (To)
Boyle Controversy
Boyle’s Law
Boyle Lectures