Letterboxing Glossary
Letterboxers have their own terminology that, at first glance, can be daunting. For any terms you have trouble with, the following list might be helpful.
1 | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
- 100 Club
- abandoned letterbox
- adopted letterbox
- alias
- altered books
- attempted box
- base plate
- baby wipes
- bearing
- blaze
- blue diamond
- bonus box
- book crossing
- boxing buddy
- bushwacking
- cacheboxing
- cairn
- cardinal points
- catching feature
- cat's eye ink pad
- chalk ink
- check dam
- checkpoint
- clitter
- ColorBox
- commando, going
- compass
- confiscated letterbox
- contour line
- cooties
- cootie catcher
- Cranmere Pool
- cuckoo clue
- culvert
- custom-made stamp
- Dartmoor
- dauber duos
- declination
- dial
- direction-of-travel arrow
- discussion group
- Douggerware
- drain-drip
- drive-by letterbox
- duff
- dye ink
- ecoscavenging
- E-count
- event
- exchange
- first finder
- F-count
- flea
- gathering
- geocaching
- GPS
- hand-carved stamp
- handrails
- hitchhiker
- hitchhiker hostel
- homage stamp
- housing
- huffing
- hybrid box
- index pointer
- landmark
- LbNA
- leg
- letterbook
- logbook
- LTC
- Lyme disease
- magnetic north
- MasterCarve
- MIA
- microbox
- missing letterbox
- mount
- muggle
- mystery letterbox
- noxer
- NPS
- orienteering
- orienteering compass
- orienting arrow
- orphan
- pace
- parasite
- P-count
- personal stamp
- personal traveler
- PFX-count
- pigment ink
- pink stuff
- plumber's gasket
- PMO
- poaching
- poison ivy
- poison oak
- postals
- postal ring
- puncheon
- questing
- route
- scavenging
- signature stamp
- SitRep
- slack-boxer
- Smithsonian Magazine
- snag
- Speedball
- Speedy-Cut
- spoiler
- S.P.O.R.
- Staedtler Mars
- stamp-in
- stile
- store-bought stamp
- switchback
- talk list
- thumbprint signature
- ticks
- topographic map
- tor
- tracker
- trail name
- traveler
- true north
- turnpike
- urban letterbox
- virtuals
- waterbar
- West Nile virus
- WhatPulse
- Word-of-Mouth (WOM)
- X-count
Are there other terms you've seen used in talk lists or clues but don't know what they mean? Contact me and I'll try to answer your question or might even add it here!