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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Coffer \Cof"fer\, v. t. 1. To put into a coffer. --Bacon. 2. (Mining.) To secure from leaking, as a shaft, by ramming clay behind the masonry or timbering. --Raymond. 3. To form with or in a coffer or coffers; to furnish with a coffer or coffers. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Coffer \Cof"fer\ (?; 115), n. [OF. cofre, F. coffre, L. cophinus basket, fr Gr ?. Cf {Coffin}, n.] 1. A casket, chest, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping money or other valuables. --Chaucer. In ivory coffers I have stuffed my crowns. --Shak. 2. Fig.: Treasure or funds; -- usually in the plural. He would discharge it without any burden to the queen's coffers, for honor sake. --Bacon. Hold here is half my coffer. --Shak. 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}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Cowfish}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: coffer n 1: an ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome [syn: {caisson}, {lacuna}] 2: a chest especially for storing valuables From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Coffer 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).
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