coffin.
A closed box in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial.
Meaning & usage
A 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.
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.
Where this word comes from
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.
To place in a coffin.
Where this word comes from
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.
An exploratory trench used when first digging a mine.
A deep ditch.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Cornish koghyn (“exploratory trench”), with spelling likely influenced by etymology 1.
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