Coffin

Quick meaning: Coffin is a noun meaning A closed box in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial.

Meaning

A closed box in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial.

More Meanings

1. (cartomancy) The eighth Lenormand card.
2. The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.
3. A storage container for nuclear waste.
4. A combination fence obstacle where the horse jumps a set of rails, strides downhill to a ditch, and then goes back uphill to another jump.
5. (transitive) To place in a coffin.
6. (archaic) A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.
7. (obsolete) A conical paper bag, used by grocers.

Example Sentences

Of the paste a coffin I will rear.

Indians do not hinder the progress of their dead by embalming or tight coffining.

The chest in which she is coffined washes ashore and is brought to the Lord Cerimon.

The smoke of this Hearbe, which they receaue at the mouth through certaine coffins, suche as the Grocers do vse to put in their Spices.

Word Forms

• coffins
• coffyn
• coffining
• coffined
• coffan
• coffen

Synonyms for coffin

Depending on context, synonyms include encoffin, casket.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include casket, grave, burial, box, depot, lowry.

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