Sekirov Dictionary

coffin

UK /ˈkɒfɪn/US /ˈkɔfɪn/

noun 9
verb 1
forms 3
phrases 2

noun9

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a box made to hold someone's body at a funeral and to be put in the ground with it
- 20 May 2018, Hadley Freeman in The Guardian, Is Meghan Markle the American the royals have needed all along? I’d always found the royals a cold proposition, Diana excepted, but the sight of that little boy, his head bent, not daring to look up at his mother’s coffin in front of him was, and remains, genuinely heartbreaking.
A storage container for nuclear waste.
The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.
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.
A deep ditch.
The eighth Lenormand card.
(no longer used) An exploratory trench used when first digging a mine.
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(no longer used) A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.
- Of the paste a coffin I will rear. — 1588
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(no longer used) A conical paper bag, used by grocers.
- 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. — 1577

verb1

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To place in a coffin.
- Indians do not hinder the progress of their dead by embalming or tight coffining. — 1941

forms

coffined · coffining · coffins

Phrases with coffin

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