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coffin

Pronunciation: /ˈkɒfɪn/

The English word “coffin” has 10 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A closed box in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial.
  2. The eighth Lenormand card.
  3. A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.
  4. A conical paper bag, used by grocers.
  5. The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.
  6. A storage container for nuclear waste.
  7. 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.
  8. An exploratory trench used when first digging a mine.
  9. A deep ditch.

verb

  1. To place in a coffin.

Etymology

From Middle English coffyn, from Old Northern French cofin (“sarcophagus", earlier "basket, coffer”), from Latin cophinus (“basket”), a loanword from Ancient Greek κόφινος (kóphinos, “a basket”). Doublet of coffer. Displaced native Old English þrūh.

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