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Coffer   /kˈɔfər/   Listen
noun
Coffer  n.  
1.
A casket, chest, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping money or other valuables. "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 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. (Zool.) See Cowfish.


verb
Coffer  v. t.  
1.
To put into a coffer.
2.
(Mining.) To secure from leaking, as a shaft, by ramming clay behind the masonry or timbering.
3.
To form with or in a coffer or coffers; to furnish with a coffer or coffers.





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"Coffer" Quotes from Famous Books



... equanimity on the subject, though it is now nearly three hours since dinner, and the house-floor is perfectly clean again; as clean as everything else in that wonderful house-place, where the only chance of collecting a few grains of dust would be to climb on the salt-coffer, and put your finger on the high mantel-shelf on which the glittering brass candlesticks are enjoying their summer sinecure; for at this time of year, of course, every one goes to bed while it is yet light, or at least light enough to discern the outline of objects after you ...
— Adam Bede • George Eliot
... landlady had the courage to go but no sooner had she crossed the threshold than the Evil Spirit blew the light out; she got a light again, but this also was blown out. Instead of returning for another light, she went straight to the coffer in the dark, and brought the books to the house, and that without ...
— Welsh Folk-Lore - a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales • Elias Owen
... beautiful and significant legend which describes him as dispensing to the old wise men the spiritual blessings of love, meekness, and perfect faith, in return for their gifts and their homage. It appears to me bad taste, verging on profanity, to represent him plunging his little hand into the coffer of gold, or eagerly grasping one of the gold pieces. Neither should he be wrapped up in swaddling clothes, nor in any way a subordinate figure in the group; for it is the Epiphany, the Manifestation of ...
— Legends of the Madonna • Mrs. Jameson
... conferred on mankind he was unanimously hailed and worshipped as a deity. But his brother Set (whom the Greeks called Typhon) with seventy-two others plotted against him. Having taken the measure of his good brother's body by stealth, the bad brother Typhon fashioned and highly decorated a coffer of the same size, and once when they were all drinking and making merry he brought in the coffer and jestingly promised to give it to the one whom it should fit exactly. Well, they all tried one after the other, ...
— The Golden Bough - A study of magic and religion • Sir James George Frazer
... Lesly, and the laird of Grange entered the castle in the morning, just as one of his harlots Mrs Ogilvie was gone out of bed from him. The noise soon alarmed the cardinal, who was but a little before fallen asleep. He got up and hid a coffer of gold in a corner. Afterward with some difficulty they got in. John Lesly drew his sword, and in sober terms told him their errand, but could bring him to no signs of repentance or preparation for death.—Whereupon ...
— Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) • John Howie


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