boxwise

In the form of a box.

Adverb

  1. In the form of a box.
    • ...lying on his side enclosed by stones that had been placed boxwise round him, and surrounded by his burial-offerings of jugs and bowls. - 1958, Lady Margaret Collingridge Wheeler, Walls of Jericho:
    • First, it should appear to be a part of the site and not a foreign element set up boxwise on edge to the utter humiliation of every natural thing in sight. - 1992?, Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, Frank Lloyd...

Origin

From box + -wise.