Meaning of box canyon | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Examples

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

“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.”

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

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