box-like

English

Etymology

From box +‎ -like

Adjective

box-like (comparative more box-like, superlative most box-like)

  1. Alternative form of boxlike.
    • 1961 May, B. A. Haresnape, “Design on the railway: Part Three”, in Trains Illustrated, page 302:
      The majority of locomotive bodies have vertical sides, partly to simplify construction and partly to make the utmost use of the permissible loading gauge. This tends to produce a box-like appearance, which is uninteresting in itself but can be improved [...].
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