Definition of coffer

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Coffer (n.) 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..

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Trunkfish :: Trunkfish (n.) Any one of several species of plectognath fishes, belonging to the genus Ostracion, or the family Ostraciontidae, having an angular body covered with a rigid integument consisting of bony scales. Some of the species are called also coffer fish, and boxfish..
Pile :: Pile (n.) A large stake, or piece of timber, pointed and driven into the earth, as at the bottom of a river, or in a harbor where the ground is soft, for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc..
Cowfish :: Cowfish (n.) A marine plectognath fish (Ostracoin quadricorne, and allied species), having two projections, like horns, in front; -- called also cuckold, coffer fish, trunkfish..
Upspurner :: Upspurner (n.) A spurner or contemner; a despiser; a scoffer.
Batardeau :: Batardeau (n.) A cofferdam.
Scoffery :: Scoffery (n.) The act of scoffing; scoffing conduct; mockery.
Jeerer :: Jeerer (n.) A scoffer; a railer; a mocker.
Ciborium :: Ciborium (n.) The coffer or case in which the host is kept; the pyx.
Cofferwork :: Cofferwork (n.) Rubblework faced with stone.
Hutch :: Hutch (n.) A chest, box, coffer, bin, coop, or the like, in which things may be stored, or animals kept; as, a grain hutch; a rabbit hutch..
Cleading :: Cleading (n.) The planking or boarding of a shaft, cofferdam, etc..
Coffer :: Coffer (n.) The chamber of a canal lock; also, a caisson or a cofferdam..
Coffer :: Coffer (v. t.) To secure from leaking, as a shaft, by ramming clay behind the masonry or timbering..
Ark :: Ark (n.) A chest, or coffer..
Cellaret :: Cellaret (n.) A receptacle, as in a dining room, for a few bottles of wine or liquor, made in the form of a chest or coffer, or a deep drawer in a sideboard, and usually lined with metal..
Scoffer :: Scoffer (n.) One who scoffs.
Coffer :: Coffer (n.) 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..
Coffer :: Coffer (v. t.) To put into a coffer.
Coffer :: Coffer (n.) A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson..
Scorner :: Scorner (n.) One who scorns; a despiser; a contemner; specifically, a scoffer at religion..
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