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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