Coffer

[Cof·fer]

A coffer is a small safe or lockbox that's meant for keeping precious or valuable items safe. Your grandfather might keep his important papers in a coffer in his study.

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

Noun
a chest especially for storing valuables

Noun
an ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome

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

n.
Fig.: Treasure or funds; -- usually in the plural.

n.
A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson.

n.
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.

n.
The chamber of a canal lock; also, a caisson or a cofferdam.

v. t.
To put into a coffer.

v. t.
To secure from leaking, as a shaft, by ramming clay behind the masonry or timbering.

v. t.
To form with or in a coffer or coffers; to furnish with a coffer or coffers.

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.
2. Fig.: Treasure or funds; -- usually in the plural.
He would discharge it without any burden to the queen's coffers, for honor sake.
Hold, here is half my coffer.
3. (Arch.) A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson. 4. (Fort.) A trench dug in the botton 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'94l.) See Cowfish.

Coffer

Cof"fer, v. t. 1. To put into a coffer. Bacon. 2. (Mining.) To secure from leaking, as a chaft, by ramming clay behind the masonry or timbering. Raymond. 3. To form with or in a coffer or coffers; to turnish with a coffer or coffers.

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

To put into a coffer.

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Usage Examples

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

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