Box″er, n. 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 Society,” have been given as the Chinese name of the organization; why the members were called Boxers is uncertain.
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Webster's Dictionary 1913
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.