coffin

Meanings

Noun

• A rectangular closed box in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial.
• The eighth Lenormand card.
• A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.
• A conical paper bag, used by grocers.
• The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.
• A storage container for nuclear waste.

Verb

• To place in a coffin.

Related

Similar words

• encoffin

Origin

• From Middle English coffyn, from Old Northern French cofin, from Latin cophinus, a loanword from Ancient Greek κόφινος. coffer.