witness box

witness box (plural witness boxes)

1. (chiefly British) A witness stand in a courtroom.
   • 1910, Henry Lawson, The Rising of the Court:

     The same dingy court room, […] ; the royal arms above it [the bench] and the little witness box to one side, where so many honest poor people are bullied

   • 1920, A. E. W. Mason, “chapter XXXI”, in The Summons:

     There's no lie Jenny Prask wouldn't tell to force Joan into the witness box.

• (chiefly US) witness stand

• box