box up
verb
- to enclose in a box
Wiktionary
verb
- To pack into boxes.
- To confine.
“to be boxed up in narrow quarters”
““What! cried Julia. Go box’d up three in a post-chaise in this weather, when we may have seats in a barouche! No, my dear Edmund, that will not quite do.””
- To shuffle (dice) so that the gamblers can choose from among them.
“The book gets behind the money, the mechanic picks up the crap stick and starts boxing up the dice.”
“He made no attempt to rip the die back out again, but simply left it in the game and when the dice were boxed up it went into the bowl and was lost […]”