coffin

Definitions

1. A closed box in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial
2. A surname.
3. A closed box in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial.
4. An exploratory trench used when first digging a mine.
   Cornwall, obsolete
5. The eighth Lenormand card
6. The eighth Lenormand card.
7. A deep ditch.
   Cornwall, broadly
8. A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie
9. A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.
   archaic
10. A conical paper bag, used by grocers
11. A conical paper bag, used by grocers.
    obsolete
12. The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone
13. The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.
14. A storage container for nuclear waste.
15. 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.

Equivalents

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עבריתארוןתיבה

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Hrvatskibarakistkorabljalautaleslijessandukurnaгробдомовинаковчеглеслијессандук+ 11 more

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Հայերենդագաղ

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Монголавс

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Maltitebut

မြန်မာခေါင်း

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Polskijesionkatrumiennytrumna

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Românăcoșciugsicriu

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Slovenčinarakva

Slovenščinakrsta

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Српскиbarakistkorabljalautaleslijessandukurnaгробдомовинаковчеглеслијессандук+ 11 more

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ئۇيغۇرچەتاۋۇت

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Examples

“[…] Passing the apple-tree blows of white and pink in the orchards, / Carrying a corpse to where it shall rest⟳ in the grave, / Night and day journeys a coffin.”

“20 May 2018, Hadley Freeman in The Guardian, Is Meghan Markle the American the royals have⟳ needed all along? I’d always found the royals a cold proposition, Diana excepted, but the sight of that little boy, his head bent, not daring to look⟳ up at his mother’s coffin in front of him was, and remains, genuinely heartbreaking.”

“Plans to carry⟳ the Queen's coffin from Edinburgh to London by rail were scrapped in favour of travel⟳ in a Royal Air Force⟳ cargo aircraft.”

“Of the paste a coffin I will rear.”

“Take⟳ your mallard and put⟳ him into the iuyce of the sayde Onyons, and season him with pepper, and salte, cloues and mace, then put⟳ your Mallard into the coffin with the saide iuyce of the onyons.”

“The smoke⟳ of this Hearbe, which they receaue at the mouth through certaine coffins, suche as the Grocers do vse to put⟳ in their Spices.”

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