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coffin
1[kaw-fin, kof-in]
noun
the box or case in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial; casket.
the part of a horse's foot containing the coffin bone.
Printing.
the bed of a platen press.
the wooden frame around the bed of an early wooden press.
verb (used with object)
to put or enclose in or as in a coffin.
Coffin
2[kaw-fin, kof-in]
noun
Levi, 1798–1877, U.S. abolitionist leader.
Robert P(eter) Tristram, 1892–1955, U.S. poet, essayist, and biographer.
coffin
/ ˈɒɪ /
noun
a box in which a corpse is buried or cremated
the part of a horse's foot that contains the coffin bone
verb
(tr) to place in or as in a coffin
engineering another name for flask
Other Word Forms
- coffinless adjective
- uncoffin verb (used with object)
Word History and Origins
Origin of coffin1
Word History and Origins
Origin of coffin1
Example Sentences
On a bright morning, just a stone's throw from where he grew up and went to school, people lined the street on their knees to watch his coffin pass by.
Ms Logan's coffin, draped in the Union flag, was carried atop an aerial ladder platform fire engine.
He’s repeatedly poked fun at himself and his fans, even getting into a bizarre online spat with Piers Morgan over coffin shapes during the pandemic.
The coffin of her husband, Johnson Mabia, sat amid a crowd of stricken mourners in Limbe in Cameroon's South-West region - an area that had witnessed scenes like this many times before.
He always used the number plate on his personal vehicle and it was even on the Toyota Land Cruiser that carried his coffin to his funeral at Truro Cathedral in 2022.
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