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noun
1.
the box or case in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial; casket.
2.
the part of a horse's foot containing the coffin bone.
3.
Printing.
a.
the bed of a platen press.
b.
the wooden frame around the bed of an early wooden press.
verb (used with object)
4.
to put or enclose in or as in a coffin.
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Coffins
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Origin:
1300–50; Middle English cofin < Old North French < Latin cophinus < Greek kóphinos a kind of basket
1300–50; Middle English cofin < Old North French < Latin cophinus < Greek kóphinos a kind of basket
Related forms
cof·fin·less, adjective
un·cof·fin, verb (used with object)
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Word Origin & History
coffin
early 14c., from O.Fr. cofin "sarcophagus," earlier "basket, coffer," from L. cophinus "basket," from Gk. kophinos "a basket," of uncertain origin. Funeral sense in Eng. is 1520s; before that it was literal and had also a meaning of "pie crust." Coffin nail "cigarette" is slang from 1880.
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