boxing

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They may be fitted with boxings, into which they are folded, or arranged to slide into the wall.

From Homes and How to Make Them by Gardner, E. C. (Eugene Clarence)

In the first case, wide piers between the sash are necessary; in the second, boxings for the blinds.

From Homes and How to Make Them by Gardner, E. C. (Eugene Clarence)

Old kitty has to give them several boxings a day with her paw.

From Harper's Young People, April 27, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

The boxings, the rough lumber, the two by fourteen's finished, the dropped sidings and groved roofing, and lath and ceiling and rough fencings and all the rest?

From The White Desert by Fischer, Anton Otto

Lambrequins dependent from gaudy boxings of beaten tin, gilded.

From Life on the Mississippi, Part 8. by Twain, Mark