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• n  small or narrow cell
• n  a device that causes tobacco leaves or fruit or hides to sweat

• It looked like two clusters of white grapes, floating along with the wind, with something resembling a bathtub, a coffin or a sweatbox dangling below.
• Your reference to the Egyptian Parliament being "a steaming little sweatbox" during the recent investiture of King Farouk (PTI, p.
• For the hostages, the confinement had been akin to an emotional sweatbox of unrelieved uncertainty over their ultimate fate.

News & Articles

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• A special source of outrage
  On a recent visit to the Lincoln Memorial during one of those sweatbox afternoons that are common to Washington, D.C. in July, a hellfire-and-brimstone preacher stood at the base of the steps leading up the monument, holding a Bible, declaiming about idolatry and pointing toward the majestic, seated statue of Abraham Lincoln that gazes out toward...
  July 28, 2013 - Observer-Reporter

Quotes

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• Peter Beardsley in Telegraph.co.uk
  I used to play five-a-side in what we called the 'sweatbox' four or five nights a week in confined surroundings, which are what the Football Association now advocates for kids,Beardsley said. "The club really played an important role in my...