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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



... company rose and went back to the palace of Alcinous, where they found the gifts for Odysseus all set in order against his departure. Then Alcinous brought a golden goblet, beautifully fashioned, and richly chased, and bade Arete bring a coffer to hold the gifts. The coffer was displayed, and was in itself a gift of no mean value, being a ...
— Stories from the Odyssey • H. L. Havell
... heard the sighing of the wind and the roar of the surf, soft with distance, infinite plaintive and despairing. Then, because sleep was not for me, I arose and came groping within my inner cave where stood a coffer and, lifting the lid, drew forth that I sought and went and sat me on my bed where the moon made a glory. And sitting there, I unfolded this my treasure that was no more than a woman's gown and fell to smoothing its folds with reverent hand; very tattered ...
— Martin Conisby's Vengeance • Jeffery Farnol
... Mark said; "the coffer contains gems worth over 50,000 pounds, and I would very much rather it remained in your keeping until I decide what to do with it. ...
— Colonel Thorndyke's Secret • G. A. Henty
... that Aurelia had not, in the coffer she was taking away, a quarter of this sum of money. He foresaw endless delay, infinite peril to his hopes. Schooling a hot tongue to submissive utterance, he asked that ...
— Veranilda • George Gissing
... favourite drawings, and the couch-bunk under a window to conceal the summerly recliner while throwing full light on her book; and the hearth-square for logs, when she wanted fire: because Fredi bathed in any weather: the oaken towel-coffer; the wood-carvings of doves, tits, fishes; the rod for the flowered silken hangings she was to choose, and have shy odalisque peeps of sunny water ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith


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