Coffer

Quick meaning: Coffer is a noun meaning A strong chest or box used for keeping money or valuables safe.

Meaning

A strong chest or box used for keeping money or valuables safe.

More Meanings

1. (architecture) An ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome.
2. A temporary watertight structure used during underwater construction of bridges, causeways, ships, etc.
3. A supply or store of money, often belonging to an organization.
4. A trench dug in the bottom of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it with raking fire.
5. (transitive) To put money or valuables in a coffer
6. (transitive) To decorate something, especially a ceiling, with coffers.

Example Sentences

Hold, there is half my coffer.

Prolapsed and waterstained ceiling, the sagging coffers.

The coffers were empty, and the first thing to be done was to devise some means by which we could raise a revenue.

c. 1610–1620 (written), 1661 (first published), Francis Bacon, Letter of Advice to the Duke of Buckingham He would discharge it without any great burden to the queen's coffers.

Word Forms

• coffers
• coffering
• coffered

Synonyms for coffer

Depending on context, synonyms include strongbox, caisson, cofferdam, lacuna.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include caisson, lacuna, chest, bin, vault, purse.

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