coffer
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fər, ˈkɒf noun
1.
a box or chest, especially one for valuables.
2.
coffers, a treasury; funds: The coffers of the organization were rapidly filled by the contributions.
3.
any of various boxlike enclosures, as a cofferdam.
verb (used with object)
5.
to deposit or lay up in or as in a coffer or chest.
6.
to ornament with coffers or sunken panels.
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Coffer
is always a great word to know.
So is colonnade. Does it mean:
| a building of exceptional height completely supported by a framework, as of girders, from which the walls are suspended, as opposed to a building supported by load-bearing walls |
| a series of regularly spaced columns supporting an entablature and usually making up one side of a roof |
Related forms
cof·fer·like, adjective
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coffer (ˈkɒfə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a chest, esp for storing valuables |
| 2. | (usually plural) a store of money |
| 3. | caisson, Also called: lacuna an ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling, dome, etc |
| 4. | a watertight box or chamber |
| 5. | a. short for cofferdam |
| b. a recessed panel in a concrete, metal, or timber soffit | |
| —vb | |
| 6. | to store, as in a coffer |
| 7. | to decorate (a ceiling, dome, etc) with coffers |
| [C13: from Old French coffre, from Latin cophinus basket, from Greek kophinos] | |
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Word Origin & History
coffer
mid-13c., from O.Fr. cofre "a chest," from L. cophinus "basket" (see coffin).
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Bible Dictionary
Coffer definition
the receptacle or small box placed beside the ark by the Philistines, in which they deposited the golden mice and the emerods as their trespass-offering (1 Sam. 6:8, 11, 15).
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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Example sentences
At this point the steel sheet piling was removed and an earthen coffer dam was placed downstream of the structure.
The material excavated from the tunnels was used to make the coffer dam.
Contractor will remove what is remaining of the coffer dam downstream from the stilling basin.
The area between earthen coffer dam and the old structure was then dewatered.
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