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.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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