Boxer

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun One who packs boxes.

II. Boxer ·noun One who boxes; a pugilist.

III. Boxer ·add. ·noun A member of a powerful Chinese organization which committed numerous outrages on Europeans and Christian converts in the uprising against foreigners in 1900. Various names, as "League of United Patriots" and "Great Knife [or Sword] Society," have been given as the Chinese name of the organization; why the members were called Boxers is uncertain.

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