Bible Dictionaries
Boxer

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) One who boxes; a pugilist.

(2):

(n.) One who packs boxes.

(3):

(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 [or Sword] Society," have been given as the Chinese name of the organization; why the members were called Boxers is uncertain.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Boxer'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​b/boxer.html. 1828.