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De - Pt| English Dictionary: Coffer | by the DICT Development Group |
| 4 results for Coffer | |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Coffer \Cof"fer\ (?; 115), n. [OF. cofre, F. coffre, L. cophinus basket, fr. Gr. [?]. Cf. {Coffin}, n.] 1. A casket, chest, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping money or other valuables. --Chaucer. In ivory coffers I have stuffed my crowns. --Shak. 2. Fig.: Treasure or funds; -- usually in the plural. He would discharge it without any burden to the queen's coffers, for honor sake. --Bacon. Hold, here is half my coffer. --Shak. 3. (Arch.) A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson. 4. (Fort.) A trench dug in the bottom of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it by a raking fire. 5. The chamber of a canal lock; also, a caisson or a cofferdam. {Coffer dam}. (Engin.) See {Cofferdam}, in the Vocabulary. {Coffer fish}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Cowfish}. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Coffer \Cof"fer\, v. t. 1. To put into a coffer. --Bacon. 2. (Mining.) To secure from leaking, as a shaft, by ramming clay behind the masonry or timbering. --Raymond. 3. To form with or in a coffer or coffers; to furnish with a coffer or coffers. | |
| From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
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Coffer the receptacle or small box placed beside the ark by the Philistines, in which they deposited the golden mice and the emerods as their trespass-offering (1 Sam. 6:8, 11, 15). | |
