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Meaning of COFFER in English

A casket, chest, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping money or other valuables.

Use in sentences of COFFER

    Meaning of COFFER in English

    • A casket, chest, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping money or other valuables.
    • Fig.: Treasure or funds; -- usually in the plural.
    • A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson.
    • 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.
    • The chamber of a canal lock; also, a caisson or a cofferdam.
    • To put into a coffer.
    • To secure from leaking, as a shaft, by ramming clay behind the masonry or timbering.
    • To form with or in a coffer or coffers; to furnish with a coffer or coffers.

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