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box kite ExamplesWord Origin noun
- a tailless kite consisting of two or more light, box-shaped frames joined together, covered except at the ends and around the middle.
Origin of box kite First recorded in 1895–1900 Examples from the Web for box kite Historical Examples of box kite
Now you’ll catch it,’ I said, as the herald gusts set the big drum rolling down the street like a box-kite.
Rudyard Kipling
The trick with the dummy and the box-kite proved very effective, as far as Sid Joffy was concerned.
Clarence Young
The picture of aeroplanes at the close of this year recalls the Japanese box-kite.
Mr. Punch’s History of Modern England Vol. IV of IV.
Charles L. Graves
Their first machines depended for lateral stability on the vertical panels of the box-kite structure.
Walter Raleigh.
A few hundred feet above the trees within the wall, a box-kite was straining at its rope in the rising gale.
Ernest Bramah
British Dictionary definitions for box kite box kite noun
- a kite with a boxlike frame open at both ends