coffer
Speech parts
1. coffer - Noun
2. coffer - Verb
3. Coffer - Proper noun
Meaning
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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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.
Catherine's other jewels were kept in a coffer with five drawers at Sudeley and this was sent to the Tower of London on 20 April 1549, and her clothes and papers followed in May.
Concrete ramps are the most expensive vehicular beach accesses to construct requiring use of a quick drying concrete or a coffer dam to protect them from tidal water during the concrete curing process.
If you were one of the three kings, what would you pack in your coffer to give to the baby Jesus?
The expressway along with its dual feeders was constructed at a total cost of 11.2 billion dollars, 43pc of which was financed from the government’s coffer while the Chinese EXIM Bank covered the balance.
Especially now that billions of 30 year old bond are sold in the market, hence the national coffer is full.