puzzle box
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.93 in modern English
38
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A box that cannot be opened by the usual obvious means, and therefore challenges a person to find the correct way to open it.
noun
A similar device or cage that can be opened by means of levers, latches, etc., used to test the learning behaviour of animals.
noun
Something that is puzzling; an enigma; (narratology, also attributive) a complex story that is gradually revealed, often driven by a central myth.
noun
A box containing a jigsaw puzzle.
Example Sentences
- ""Jest like the Injian puzzle-boxes, ain't they?" said Dan, as the one boat dropped into the other."
- "They walked about this town and found their own house, just as before, and went in, and there was the toy town on the floor; and you will see that they might have walked into that town also, but they saw that it was no good, and that they couldn’t get out that way, but would only get deeper and deeper into a nest of towns in libraries in houses in towns in libraries in houses in towns in … and so on for always—something like Chinese puzzle-boxes multiplied by millions and millions for ever and ever."
- "That’s where Osvath’s ravens come in. His student Can Kabadayi trained the birds to open a baited puzzle box by putting a stone of particular weight and shape into a tube."
- "puzzle box show"
- "puzzle-box plot"
- "Now the band has released its most po-mo puzzle box of anguish yet. Stickles has described The Most Lamentable Tragedy as a rock opera and has annotated the lyrics at Genius.com; judging by the band’s Twitter feed, which is filled with retweeted praise, the ambition has gone over quite well with its biggest fans."